Xen users - Jun 2008 - Rebooting Windows guests when running xm reboot

I just installed Windows 2008 x86_64 on Xen 3.2 that I compiled from 
source on CentOS 5.1. 

Are there any windows guest tools available that run shutdown when I 
issue xm reboot in dom0? 

Russ

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>I just installed Windows 2008 x86_64 on Xen 3.2 that I compiled from
>source on CentOS 5.1.
>
>Are there any windows guest tools available that run shutdown when I
>issue xm reboot in dom0?
Install James''s windows pv drivers (search markmail) with .Net
framework.
Alternatively, you can just install the service w/ .Net if you don''t
want the drivers.
jlc

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Ruslan Sivak schrieb:
> I just installed Windows 2008 x86_64 on Xen 3.2 that I compiled from 
> source on CentOS 5.1.
> Are there any windows guest tools available that run shutdown when I 
> issue xm reboot in dom0?
> Russ
> 
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when you set your win into testsign mode you could sign james work 
easiely and use it works really fine here.
florian


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Florian Manschwetus wrote:
> Ruslan Sivak schrieb:
>> I just installed Windows 2008 x86_64 on Xen 3.2 that I compiled from 
>> source on CentOS 5.1.
>> Are there any windows guest tools available that run shutdown when I 
>> issue xm reboot in dom0?
>> Russ
>>
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> when you set your win into testsign mode you could sign james work 
> easiely and use it works really fine here.
> florian
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
I''m not sure what you mean by testsign mode. 

I just installed it and after disabling signature enforcement, it loaded 
the drivers, but did the same thing that happens to other people, it 
detected the drives twice, once as QEMU and once as XEN PV.

This hosed one of my systems, but the other one seemed to work after a 
reboot.  The second drives were disabled, but the shutdown monitor was 
still not installed?  

Russ

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Ruslan Sivak schrieb:
> Florian Manschwetus wrote:
>> Ruslan Sivak schrieb:
>>> I just installed Windows 2008 x86_64 on Xen 3.2 that I compiled
from
>>> source on CentOS 5.1.
>>> Are there any windows guest tools available that run shutdown when
I
>>> issue xm reboot in dom0?
>>> Russ
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Xen-users mailing list
>>> Xen-users@lists.xensource.com
>>> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
>>>
>> when you set your win into testsign mode you could sign james work 
>> easiely and use it works really fine here.
>> florian
>>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I''m not sure what you mean by testsign mode.
> I just installed it and after disabling signature enforcement, it loaded 
> the drivers, but did the same thing that happens to other people, it 
> detected the drives twice, once as QEMU and once as XEN PV.
> 
> This hosed one of my systems, but the other one seemed to work after a 
> reboot.  The second drives were disabled, but the shutdown monitor was 
> still not installed? 
> Russ
> 
you have to enable the service under services.
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Florian Manschwetus schreef:
> when you set your win into testsign mode you could sign james work 
> easiely and use it works really fine here.
> florian
Do you also have networking work this way under Windows 2008? I got all 
the drivers working, including the network driver, but it just won''t 
allow any traffic through it.

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Florian Manschwetus wrote:
> Ruslan Sivak schrieb:
>> Florian Manschwetus wrote:
>>> Ruslan Sivak schrieb:
>>>> I just installed Windows 2008 x86_64 on Xen 3.2 that I compiled
>>>> from source on CentOS 5.1.
>>>> Are there any windows guest tools available that run shutdown
when
>>>> I issue xm reboot in dom0?
>>>> Russ
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Xen-users mailing list
>>>> Xen-users@lists.xensource.com
>>>> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
>>>>
>>> when you set your win into testsign mode you could sign james work 
>>> easiely and use it works really fine here.
>>> florian
>>>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>
>> I''m not sure what you mean by testsign mode.
>> I just installed it and after disabling signature enforcement, it 
>> loaded the drivers, but did the same thing that happens to other 
>> people, it detected the drives twice, once as QEMU and once as XEN PV.
>>
>> This hosed one of my systems, but the other one seemed to work after 
>> a reboot.  The second drives were disabled, but the shutdown monitor 
>> was still not installed? Russ
>>
> you have to enable the service under services.
> florian
>
>   
I didn''t see it under services.  I just reinstalled and hosted my 32
bit
windows again.  When I first install it, I get a bunch of warning about 
driver signing, and I say to install anyway.  Then I reboot, and the PCI 
device is shown as not installed properly.  I update the drivers at 
which point I see two of everything.  I think reboot and windows is hosed. 

Is there a proper way to install these drivers?

Russ

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Joost van den Broek wrote:
> Florian Manschwetus schreef:
>> when you set your win into testsign mode you could sign james work 
>> easiely and use it works really fine here.
>> florian
> Do you also have networking work this way under Windows 2008? I got 
> all the drivers working, including the network driver, but it just 
> won''t allow any traffic through it.
I didn''t have any issues with networking that I could see. 

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On Thursday June 05 2008 05:46:26 pm Ruslan Sivak wrote:
> I didn''t see it under services.  I just reinstalled and hosted my
32 bit
> windows again.  When I first install it, I get a bunch of warning about
> driver signing, and I say to install anyway.  Then I reboot, and the PCI
> device is shown as not installed properly.  I update the drivers at
> which point I see two of everything.  I think reboot and windows is hosed.
Since 0.9.4 (I think), installing xenshutdownmon is a separate step. See 
Start -> All Programs -> Xen PV Drivers -> Install Shutdown Service.
Then go
into ''Services'' and double click on ''Xen Shutdown
Monitor Service'', and make
sure that the service ''Startup Type'' is set to
''Automatic'' - otherwise you
will have to start it manually.

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> 
> >I just installed Windows 2008 x86_64 on Xen 3.2 that I compiled from
> >source on CentOS 5.1.
> >
> >Are there any windows guest tools available that run shutdown when I
> >issue xm reboot in dom0?
> 
> Install James''s windows pv drivers (search markmail) with .Net
framework.
> Alternatively, you can just install the service w/ .Net if you
don''t
want
> the drivers.
Just to clarify, you do need the xenpci running to get the
''graceful''
shutdown. The .net shutdown monitor by itself is not sufficient.

(btw, if anyone wants to re-write shutdownmon in C instead of C# it
would remove the dependency on .net...)

James

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> 
> I''m not sure what you mean by testsign mode.
> 
> I just installed it and after disabling signature enforcement, it
loaded
> the drivers, but did the same thing that happens to other people, it
> detected the drives twice, once as QEMU and once as XEN PV.
> 
Curses... I was sure that was all fixed. Can you tell me if xenhide is
loaded? If it is, you should see it as a ''class filter'' when
you look at
the device properties, and there should also be a key called
''HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\xenhide'' in regedit.

Thanks

James

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> On Thursday June 05 2008 05:46:26 pm Ruslan Sivak wrote:
> > I didn''t see it under services.  I just reinstalled and
hosted my 32 bit
> > windows again.  When I first install it, I get a bunch of warning
about
> > driver signing, and I say to install anyway.  Then I reboot, and the
PCI
> > device is shown as not installed properly.  I update the drivers at
> > which point I see two of everything.  I think reboot and windows is
> hosed.
> 
> Since 0.9.4 (I think), installing xenshutdownmon is a separate step. See
> Start -> All Programs -> Xen PV Drivers -> Install Shutdown
Service. Then
> go
> into ''Services'' and double click on ''Xen
Shutdown Monitor Service'', and
> make
> sure that the service ''Startup Type'' is set to
''Automatic'' - otherwise you
> will have to start it manually.
> 
When you run ''Install Shutdown Service'', it should install the
service as ''Automatic'' under 0.9.6, but unless you reboot
you''ll still need to start it manually the first time.

James

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jim burns wrote:
> On Thursday June 05 2008 05:46:26 pm Ruslan Sivak wrote:
>   
>> I didn''t see it under services.  I just reinstalled and hosted
my 32 bit
>> windows again.  When I first install it, I get a bunch of warning about
>> driver signing, and I say to install anyway.  Then I reboot, and the
PCI
>> device is shown as not installed properly.  I update the drivers at
>> which point I see two of everything.  I think reboot and windows is
hosed.
>>     
>
> Since 0.9.4 (I think), installing xenshutdownmon is a separate step. See 
> Start -> All Programs -> Xen PV Drivers -> Install Shutdown
Service.
That step gives me a pop up "ShutdownMon.exe - Application error. The 
application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to 
terminate the application."

This is on RHEL-5.2/Xen-3.2.1/XP-SP3/gplpv-0.9.6.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Fajar


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James Harper wrote:
>> I''m not sure what you mean by testsign mode.
>>
>> I just installed it and after disabling signature enforcement, it
>>     
> loaded
>   
>> the drivers, but did the same thing that happens to other people, it
>> detected the drives twice, once as QEMU and once as XEN PV.
>>
>>     
>
> Curses... I was sure that was all fixed. Can you tell me if xenhide is
> loaded? If it is, you should see it as a ''class filter''
when you look at
> the device properties, and there should also be a key called
> ''HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\xenhide'' in
regedit.
>
> Thanks
>
> James
>
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>   
I will have to see if I can replicate the problem.  I believe this was 
on x64 and I think it went away on a reboot.   I am testing Xen right 
now for our production environment, and I would be happy to test these 
drivers for you on a variety of OS''s.  (I have an MS Technet 
subscription, so I can get pretty much any MS OS.).  I will likely test 
this on Win2k3 x86 and x86_64 and Win2k8 x86 and x86_64. 

If you need any sort of logs, or would like me to run any debug tools to 
help you troubleshoot things, please let me know. Also you probably need 
to put something in the wiki about disabling signature enforcement or 
enabling testsigning on Vista and 2k8.

Russ

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> 
> If you need any sort of logs, or would like me to run any debug tools
to
> help you troubleshoot things, please let me know. Also you probably
need
> to put something in the wiki about disabling signature enforcement or
> enabling testsigning on Vista and 2k8.
> 
Well... it is a wiki. Feel free to add it yourself :)

I haven''t actually tested the drivers under 2k8x64 so I am not familiar
with the testsign procedure yet.

James

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