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

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 3.4.0 - Windows 2008 Lockup
From: Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 14:00:35 +0100
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On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 23/05/2009 12:09, "Teck Choon Giam" <giamteckchoon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> Something timing/timer related must have chnaged in 3.4 to make this more
>>> likely. However it is not impossible you could see that bluescreen on 3.3
>>> too! And 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.
>>
>> I actually tried that before reverting when initially hitting this
>> lockup issue then I search the mailing list and ended up with this:
>> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-04/msg01050.html
>
> Tim Deegan posted a patch at the end of that thread. Could you try it? I
> didn't apply it for 3.4 since the patch didn't get any responses in that
> email thread.
>
>  -- Keir
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I've tested the patch and it fixes the problem of windows 7 locking up
on bootup, I've also replied in the original thread, sorry I didn't
test it at the time...

Andy

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