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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Xen 3.4.0 - Windows 2008 Lockup

To: Christian Tramnitz <chris.ace@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Xen 3.4.0 - Windows 2008 Lockup
From: Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 13:27:26 +0100
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On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Christian Tramnitz <chris.ace@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Keir Fraser wrote:
>>
>> [...] there is a workaround on 3.4 which does not exist on 3.3 -- add
>> viridian=1 to your domain config file. This will tell Windows it is
>> running
>> on a hypervisor and thus to relax its timer checks.
>
> Are the gplpv drivers working with viridian yet? I remember seeing problems
> reported by Andrew Lyon and James' answer was to not use the viridian option
> with gplpv...
>
>
> Best regards,
>   Christian

Yes they are, James made a small change and the drivers now work
perfectly with viridian=1, I have that set on all my vista and 2008
hvm's as they have at least 4 cpus assigned to them and would
regularly bugcheck 101 without it.

Andy

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