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RE: [Xen-devel] GPLPV + Xen Unstable BSOD

To: "Andrew Lyon" <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] GPLPV + Xen Unstable BSOD
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:24:19 +1100
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] GPLPV + Xen Unstable BSOD
> James,
> 
> Are there known issues with GPLPV and Xen unstable? I tried to load
> 0.9.11 onto Windows XP SP2 32 bit with 2 CPUS and after the 3rd prompt
> for driver signing I get a BSOD with error code 7E
> (SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED).
> 

I haven't tested with -unstable so I can't comment. If you can spare the
time (and aren't afraid of your DomU getting hosed), please test with
"Xen PV Drivers 0.9.12-pre15-dont-use.exe". That includes the TPR
patching which will give you a big performance boost under XP (and 2003
< sp2). You need to specify /PATCHTPR on the boot.ini to get that effect
though.

I'm in the middle of some fairly major changes at the moment, but it's
looking good so far.

James

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