Xen users - Apr 2008 - Re: Release 0.8.7 of GPL PV drivers for

Hi James,
> Do you know how to use the windows debugger? If you know how, or could
> follow some instructions I send you (it''s a bit involved to get it
> attached to a DomU) then I can put some debug statements into the
> xenhide driver in the next release and we can see what comes up.
I''m not familiar with the windows debugger, but I could follow
instructions.

I did some more testing meanwhile:

1. If I install the GPLPV drivers in a DOMU and transfer that image to 
SLES10SP1 at least the block driver and hiding works well. The network driver 
from 0.8.7 did not work, but I did no more testing on SLES.

2. The PVM drivers from Novell do have the very same problem, they also
can''t
hide the Bootdevice on RHEL.

3. I tried now 0.8.9 and disabled the xen block device before rebooting 
with /GPLPV, as I wanted to to try out just the network driver, but that gave 
me an BSOD.

Sincerly,
Klaus


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> 
> 2. The PVM drivers from Novell do have the very same problem, they
also
> can''t hide the Bootdevice on RHEL.
Curious...
> 
> 3. I tried now 0.8.9 and disabled the xen block device before
rebooting
> with /GPLPV, as I wanted to to try out just the network driver, but
that
> gave me an BSOD.
0x7B - boot device inaccessible?

xenhide.sys doesn''t have any visibility to whether any other device is
enabled or disabled, it purely looks for GPLPV and disables the pci ide
device and the rtl8139 network device, so if you have also manually
disabled xenvbd you''ll have no boot devices at all!

James

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