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

[Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:24 PM, James Harper
>> <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 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 tried "Xen PV Drivers 0.9.12-pre15-dont-use.exe" and got the same
>> BSOD with 7E error code.
>>
>> I have a spare system running Xen unstable which has a freshly
>> installed xp vm on lvm snapshot, so I can do as much testing as
>> necessary to help get this working.
>>
>> Please let me know what I need to do to help you fix this.
>
> Attached new screenshot of 0.9.12 pre15 DNU.
>
> Andy


James,

Should I try to capture some debug output using the virtual serial port method?

Andy

>
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>>
>>> 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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