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RE: [Xen-users] Release 0.9.8 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

To: "Joost van den Broek" <jvandenbroek@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Release 0.9.8 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:45:31 +1000
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Thread-topic: [Xen-users] Release 0.9.8 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows
> Well after upgrading 0.9.6 (actually, first uninstalled those with the
> pre-0.9.0 instructies because of bsod when doing normal upgrade) I get
> instant lockups when doing anything I/O intensive! The domU will use
> 100% CPU and just hangs forever as it seems (destroyed it after 5
min).

So it doesn't come good by itself?

> The previous 0.9.6 seemed to be pretty stable, no lockups or
whatsoever
> (and I'd already liked it's HD performance!) So not sure what's going
> wrong here, but in the meantime I get back to 0.9.6 (or I'll might
also
> test 0.9.7 to clear things up).

Are you using SMP? I thought I was but just noticed that my test machine
is UP at the moment.

Also, what sort of I/O intensive things are you doing? Is it something I
could reproduce easily?

James

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