I''m been busily converting the xenpci and xenvbd drivers from WDF to WDM to resolve a few issues including potential licensing problems with the Microsoft WDF and to (hopefully) allow them to function as boot drivers when doing install and system recovery. It was a fairly major rewrite of xenpci, and xenvbd, which are now working (booting and running without crashes so far). I haven''t touched xennet yet so it''s broken atm, although it won''t be too hard to get it working. Also I have taken a different approach with xenhide and it should be a lot more robust than before (eg shouldn''t get duplicate disks with the resulting corruption). The graceful shutdown stuff in xenpci is also broken at this point, as is the ability to unload the xenpci driver (eg BSoD on shutdown). Is anyone interested in testing these? Particularly those of you with the problem of the driver failing to ''hide'' the qemu ATA disk(s) which resulted in corruption. If so I''ll do a ''as it is'' release asap, otherwise I''ll wait until I''ve fixed the shutdown stuff in xenpci and gotten xennet up and running. The latest wdm stuff is in the wdm branch in hg if anyone wants to build it themselves. I haven''t tested the installer yet - maybe send me an email if you want to try it that way first. Otherwise just make sure you have removed _everything_ with ''xen'' in it from the HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet in the registry and don''t use install.bat, just install using the update driver thing. James _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Emre ERENOGLU
2008-May-14 13:38 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] GPL PV drivers for Windows - WDM version
Hi James, Great news! I''m willing to test but I think it would be better to have the xennet functioning, along with a manual procedure for installation and uninstallation. Emre On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:57 AM, James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:> I''m been busily converting the xenpci and xenvbd drivers from WDF to WDM > to resolve a few issues including potential licensing problems with the > Microsoft WDF and to (hopefully) allow them to function as boot drivers > when doing install and system recovery. > > It was a fairly major rewrite of xenpci, and xenvbd, which are now > working (booting and running without crashes so far). I haven''t touched > xennet yet so it''s broken atm, although it won''t be too hard to get it > working. > > Also I have taken a different approach with xenhide and it should be a > lot more robust than before (eg shouldn''t get duplicate disks with the > resulting corruption). > > The graceful shutdown stuff in xenpci is also broken at this point, as > is the ability to unload the xenpci driver (eg BSoD on shutdown). > > Is anyone interested in testing these? Particularly those of you with > the problem of the driver failing to ''hide'' the qemu ATA disk(s) which > resulted in corruption. If so I''ll do a ''as it is'' release asap, > otherwise I''ll wait until I''ve fixed the shutdown stuff in xenpci and > gotten xennet up and running. > > The latest wdm stuff is in the wdm branch in hg if anyone wants to build > it themselves. I haven''t tested the installer yet - maybe send me an > email if you want to try it that way first. Otherwise just make sure you > have removed _everything_ with ''xen'' in it from the > HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet in the registry and don''t use install.bat, > just install using the update driver thing. > > James > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >-- Emre Erenoglu erenoglu@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
James Harper
2008-May-14 14:26 UTC
[Xen-devel] RE: [Xen-users] GPL PV drivers for Windows - WDM version
> > Hi James, > > Great news! I''m willing to test but I think it would be better to havethe> xennet functioning, along with a manual procedure for installation and > uninstallation. > > Emre >Networking is now working in the wdm branch of hg. Nearly there :) James _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Emre ERENOGLU
2008-May-14 15:29 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] GPL PV drivers for Windows - WDM version
Cool, I can try a hg clone and build tonight, but an as-is release by you would be perfect so that everybody could test. Emre On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:26 PM, James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:> > > > Hi James, > > > > Great news! I''m willing to test but I think it would be better to have > the > > xennet functioning, along with a manual procedure for installation and > > uninstallation. > > > > Emre > > > > Networking is now working in the wdm branch of hg. Nearly there :) > > James >-- Emre Erenoglu erenoglu@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Florian Manschwetus
2008-May-15 06:55 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] GPL PV drivers for Windows - WDM version
I would give it a try on my Win 2008 X64 until the clean shutdown and network is available Florian James Harper schrieb:> I''m been busily converting the xenpci and xenvbd drivers from WDF to WDM > to resolve a few issues including potential licensing problems with the > Microsoft WDF and to (hopefully) allow them to function as boot drivers > when doing install and system recovery. > > It was a fairly major rewrite of xenpci, and xenvbd, which are now > working (booting and running without crashes so far). I haven''t touched > xennet yet so it''s broken atm, although it won''t be too hard to get it > working. > > Also I have taken a different approach with xenhide and it should be a > lot more robust than before (eg shouldn''t get duplicate disks with the > resulting corruption). > > The graceful shutdown stuff in xenpci is also broken at this point, as > is the ability to unload the xenpci driver (eg BSoD on shutdown). > > Is anyone interested in testing these? Particularly those of you with > the problem of the driver failing to ''hide'' the qemu ATA disk(s) which > resulted in corruption. If so I''ll do a ''as it is'' release asap, > otherwise I''ll wait until I''ve fixed the shutdown stuff in xenpci and > gotten xennet up and running. > > The latest wdm stuff is in the wdm branch in hg if anyone wants to build > it themselves. I haven''t tested the installer yet - maybe send me an > email if you want to try it that way first. Otherwise just make sure you > have removed _everything_ with ''xen'' in it from the > HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet in the registry and don''t use install.bat, > just install using the update driver thing. > > James > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users