RE: [Xen-devel] GPLPV Drivers 0.9.11-pre4 hang during boot - WindowsXP Pro SP2

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Did you get the DDK downloaded? I'd just enabled a heap of the debug
> > statements in there and add more and see what you can come up with.
> 
> I will do it ASAP, just 2 questions:
> 
> 1) I will try to recompile the code using also the patch suggested by
> Wayne.
> What is the HG revision of the code that matches with the 0.9.11-pre5
> release? Are there any tags? (I'm used to SVN but not to the HG VCS,
so
> maybe
> I overlooked something...)

Quite a while back I moved from using the newer WDF to using WDM. The
reasons for this were:
. I wanted to be able to use the drivers in textmode setup (eg 'Press F6
to load OEM drivers')
. Andy Grover wanted to be able to use mingw32 to compile rather than
the DDK compiler, which would mean building under Linux would be a
possibility.
. Nobody was really sure about the compatibility of GPL and WDF.

Wayne's patch relates to the WDF stream, but if you look in scsiport.c
you should recognise the part where the patch would apply, his changes
are fairly small.

> 2) I tried in the past to put under stress the VMs with some
benchmarks,
> but unfortunately most of them are more Graphics-focused than
> disk, net, cpu, memory focused.  Do you have suggestions for some
other
> software?
> 

Someone has reported crashes under (I think) one of the network
benchmark tools, but I've not been able to reproduce it.

Have a look through the mailing list at what others are using for
benchmarking... I've suddenly got a mental blank trying to remember what
they are called!

James


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