RE: [Xen-devel] RE: Windows7 Home, PV drivers (x32_0.11.0.238) stuck during install (image attached)

["AP Xen" <apxeng@xxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [mailto:konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:47 PM
> To: AP Xen
> Cc: 'James Harper'; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] RE: Windows7 Home, PV drivers (x32_0.11.0.238)
> stuck during install (image attached)
> 
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 10:12:27AM -0800, AP Xen wrote:
> > > And sure enough I did not have a Xen PCI platform device.
> > > The reason being that I had this in my guest configuration file:
> > >
> > > #------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> > > -------
> > > #   Enable/disable xen platform PCI device, default=1 (enabled)
> > > xen_platform_pci=0
> > >
> > > Changing it to 1 made the installer work. After two reboots
> > > my Windows 7 guest is running with the PV drivers.
> >
> > Konrad,
> >
> > What version of Xen are you running? Just curious because I had to
> perform 2
> 
> 
> xen_major              : 4
> xen_minor              : 1
> xen_changeset          : Thu Jan 20 17:04:06 2011 +0000
> 22787:003acf02d416
> 
> 
> > reboots with Win2k8 R2 under Xen 3.1. James and I concluded this was
> because
> > of the version of Xen I was running.
> 
> Uhh, in my case Windows was telling me that I needed to restart. I
> think the drivers
> installed themselves fine (it had the icon saying it installed them).

Yes, it was Windows asking me to reboot too. Except that only one reboot
should have been required given that it was R2.

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2011-03/msg00113.html


> > Thanks,
> > AP
> >
> > >
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