Xen users - Jul 2008 - Xen GPL PV Drivers, Windows 2003 unplanned shutdown

Hi,

I''ve recently started using the GPL PV Drivers (0.9.10) for a pair of 
test machines, one XP and one 2003. XP works beautifully: Thank you for 
the development efforts. 2003 works almost as well, with one exception.

When I either xm reboot or xm shutdown and subsequently restart the 
virtual machine, at first login I get this dialogue:
The system has restarted after an unplanned shutdown.
A log of this event has been created.
*Please tell Microsoft about this problem.*
(blah blah blah)
Send Error Report | Don''t Send

I haven''t found anything describing how I might instruct the shutdown 
command to make it a ''planned'' one, given that MS server
OS'' since 2003
now care about the reason for and the status of the shutdown. Can anyone 
assist? Does anyone object to me updating the ''Known Issues''
section of
the wiki page?

On a related note, if I don''t log in for a long time after xm reboot, I
get more of a summary version of the above error report. There is a 
"never send reports" checkbox which I could tick to get around this,
but
it would be cleaner to sort it out properly.

Cheers,
Greg.

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Am Montag, den 21.07.2008, 15:08 +0800 schrieb Gregory
Orange:
> Hi,
> 
> When I either xm reboot or xm shutdown and subsequently restart the 
> virtual machine, at first login I get this dialogue:
> The system has restarted after an unplanned shutdown.
> A log of this event has been created.
> *Please tell Microsoft about this problem.*
> (blah blah blah)
> Send Error Report | Don''t Send
Hi,

same here, but I assume this is some sort of Windows 2003 magic...
I''ve seen similar "errors" after an UPS triggered powerdown
on a
physical machine.

I''m pretty sure, there''s some workaround available at MSDN,
but I
didn''t mind as I see this as a feature ;)

cheers,

Stephan



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On 21/07/2008 08:08, Gregory Orange wrote:
> When I either xm reboot or xm shutdown and subsequently restart the 
> virtual machine, at first login I get this dialogue:
> The system has restarted after an unplanned shutdown.
It''s the shutdown tracker
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/f411d38f-f139-49fa-9d6f-18befa5cb1651033.mspx


You can disable it
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293814

I suppose it might be nice if eventually the GPLPV shutdown monitor 
server could mark them as "planned",or even added a custom "xen
reboot"
reason as shown in the KB article.

Sounds like it might be a nice easy little patch ...


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> 
> I suppose it might be nice if eventually the GPLPV shutdown monitor
> server could mark them as "planned",or even added a custom
"xen
reboot"
> reason as shown in the KB article.
> 
> Sounds like it might be a nice easy little patch ...
> 
Probably is. I want to get the shutdown monitor written in something
other than C# though. Requiring the .NET framework is a bit of a pain,
but I elected to go with C# because I''ve written stacks of services in
that before and could make it work very quickly.

If someone wanted to send me a patch I''d be happy to include it.

James


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Hi,

even if I''m happy with the current behaviour, I did a look into a
recently cloned ShutdownMon/Program.cs

To mark a shutdown "planned", it should be sufficient to declare

ShutdownReason dwReason = SHTDN_REASON_FLAG_PLANNED;

I''m not really deep into MS C#, but Shutdownreason is already
enumerated. Just wondering if there are no pre-declared constants
available...


reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376885(VS.85).aspx

cheers,

Stephan



Am Montag, den 21.07.2008, 09:26 +0100 schrieb Andy
Burns:
> On 21/07/2008 08:08, Gregory Orange wrote:
> 
> > When I either xm reboot or xm shutdown and subsequently restart the 
> > virtual machine, at first login I get this dialogue:
> > The system has restarted after an unplanned shutdown.
> 
> It''s the shutdown tracker
>
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/f411d38f-f139-49fa-9d6f-18befa5cb1651033.mspx
> 
> 
> You can disable it
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293814
> 
> I suppose it might be nice if eventually the GPLPV shutdown monitor 
> server could mark them as "planned",or even added a custom
"xen reboot"
> reason as shown in the KB article.
> 
> Sounds like it might be a nice easy little patch ...
> 
> 
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> I''m not really deep into MS C#, but Shutdownreason is already
> enumerated. Just wondering if there are no pre-declared constants
> available...
Answering to myself,

according to msdn, the definitions are available in Reason.h



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Andy Burns wrote:
> On 21/07/2008 08:08, Gregory Orange wrote:
>> When I either xm reboot or xm shutdown and subsequently restart the 
>> virtual machine, at first login I get this dialogue:
>> The system has restarted after an unplanned shutdown.
> 
> It''s the shutdown tracker
>
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/f411d38f-f139-49fa-9d6f-18befa5cb1651033.mspx
> You can disable it
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293814
Thanks, I''ll read those links and consider what we want to do with the
info.

> I suppose it might be nice if eventually the GPLPV shutdown monitor 
> server could mark them as "planned",or even added a custom
"xen reboot"
> reason as shown in the KB article.
That would be excellent.

> Sounds like it might be a nice easy little patch ...
Not my arena I''m afraid.

Thank you all for your responses to this thread. I appreciate the work 
put in, and feel confident that using the package will work out for us. 
I''ll keep an eye on updates.

Cheers,
Greg.

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