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RE: [Xen-users] Re: GPLPV Drivers - which version is good?

To: "Andrew Lyon" <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Re: GPLPV Drivers - which version is good?
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:26:29 +1100
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> 
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had to reinstall my windows 2008 vm this morning, I installed the
> > Xen PV Drivers 0.9.12-pre13.exe and they seem to work, but if I do
any
> > serious disk i/o the vm grinds to a halt, it has all the symptoms of
> > the disk simlpy not accepting any i/o at all, I was installing
acrobat
> > reader at the time and the file copy progress bar stopped moving,
then
> > explorer locked up, even task manager does not open.
> >
> > Rebooting fixed the problem, but it happened again as soon as I
tried
> > to install anything big.
> >
> > I guess 0.9.12pre13 is not a good version, I cannot remember which
one
> > I was using before, anybody have success with a specific version on
> > 2008?
> 
> I should apologise to James, his drivers were not the cause of the
> problem at all, the issue was that I had created a snapshot of the lvm
> used in the vm and the snapshot was completely full.
> 
> FYI both 0.9.11 and 0.9.12pre13 seem to work perfectly.
> 

Thanks for the update. That error report had me a bit worried!

I've had snapshots fill up before, and unless you check in the right
place it's not easy to figure out what is wrong.

James

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