Xen users - Mar 2009 - GPLPV 0.9.12-pre13 and SL 5.3 / Centos 5.3

Hello James,

I have severe problems with the GPLPV drivers under RHEL 5.2 / RHEL 5.3 
and their derivates (CentOS and Scientific Linux).

The newer drivers which changed the method for hiding/disabling devices 
will not work anymore, the QEMU devices will not be disabled.

So again the doubled Systemdisk problem hit me, and destroyed the system 
disk. It looks like the new method will not work with the xen Version of 
Redhat.

Would it be possible to have a compatibility switch for the old version?

Sincerly,
Klaus Steinberger



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Hello James,

I have severe problems with the GPLPV drivers under RHEL 5.2 / RHEL 5.3
and their derivates (CentOS and Scientific Linux).

The newer drivers which changed the method for hiding/disabling devices
will not work anymore, the QEMU devices will not be disabled.

So again the doubled Systemdisk problem hit me, and destroyed the system
disk. It looks like the new method will not work with the xen Version of
Redhat.

Would it be possible to have a compatibility switch for the old version?

Sincerly,
Klaus Steinberger



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> 
> Hello James,
> 
> I have severe problems with the GPLPV drivers under RHEL 5.2 / RHEL
5.3
> and their derivates (CentOS and Scientific Linux).
> 
> The newer drivers which changed the method for hiding/disabling
devices
> will not work anymore, the QEMU devices will not be disabled.
> 
> So again the doubled Systemdisk problem hit me, and destroyed the
system
> disk. It looks like the new method will not work with the xen Version
of
> Redhat.
> 
> Would it be possible to have a compatibility switch for the old
version?
> 
What version of Xen is with RHEL 5.[23]? I have taken care in the
drivers to not enable the PV drivers if I cannot be completely sure that
the qemu drivers are disabled. Obviously your configuration manages to
break this though.

Is there anything special about your configuration that might be
different to mine?

James

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On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Klaus Steinberger
<klaus.steinberger@physik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> Hello James,
>
> I have severe problems with the GPLPV drivers under RHEL 5.2 / RHEL 5.3 and
> their derivates (CentOS and Scientific Linux).
>
> The newer drivers which changed the method for hiding/disabling devices
will
> not work anymore, the QEMU devices will not be disabled.
I''m using a similar setup that works (for 32bit Windows domU anyway).
What domU os are you using? How did you know that the QEMU devices are
not disabled?

Regards,

Fajar

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Hi,
>> The newer drivers which changed the method for hiding/disabling devices
will
>> not work anymore, the QEMU devices will not be disabled.
> 
> I''m using a similar setup that works (for 32bit Windows domU
anyway).
I did try it with Windows 2k8 64bit. Or is it a problem with w2k8 64?
> What domU os are you using? How did you know that the QEMU devices are
> not disabled?
No disabled sign on the qemu driver and definitly a severly garbled disk 
after reboot.

Sincerly,
Klaus


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On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Klaus Steinberger
<klaus.steinberger@physik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> The newer drivers which changed the method for hiding/disabling
devices
>>> will
>>> not work anymore, the QEMU devices will not be disabled.
>>
>> I''m using a similar setup that works (for 32bit Windows domU
anyway).
>
> I did try it with Windows 2k8 64bit. Or is it a problem with w2k8 64?
Yup, version-specific problem. I reported it to James earlier :D
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2009-02/msg00737.html

Win2003 32bit should work fine (I don''t have Win2008 32bit to test).

Regards,

Fajar

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