So I successfully installed the GPLPV drivers in a Windows installation I have running under Xen. Turns out SP2 is needed - I wish this was slightly better documented somewhere, as the machine ended up bluescreening and I had to use /NOGPLPV to get it to boot again so I could upgrade it to SP2. My question is this: I ended up using ''disable'' in device manager for the rtl8139 and the old IDE driver as for some reason Windows still seems to be detecting that the devices are around. Windows was also complaining on boot that it couldn''t initialize the drivers. Is this the correct way to handle it or am I doing something wrong? Why is it doing that? I adjusted my vif= line to take out the ioemu part of it, so I don''t think that is why. Daniel -- Regards, Jonathan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> > So I successfully installed the GPLPV drivers in a Windowsinstallation I have> running under Xen. Turns out SP2 is needed - I wish this was slightlybetter> documented somewhere, as the machine ended up bluescreening and I hadto use> /NOGPLPV to get it to boot again so I could upgrade it to SP2.I don''t remember having any problems with w2k3sp1.> > My question is this: I ended up using ''disable'' in device manager forthe> rtl8139 and the old IDE driver as for some reason Windows still seemsto be> detecting that the devices are around. Windows was also complainingon boot> that it couldn''t initialize the drivers.That is correct. The drivers are prevented from loading by gplpv but that results in Windows reporting an error on loading the drivers for them. Xen 3.4 resolves this. James _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:45 AM, James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:>> documented somewhere, as the machine ended up bluescreening and I had > to use >> /NOGPLPV to get it to boot again so I could upgrade it to SP2. > > I don''t remember having any problems with w2k3sp1.I don''t think it was even SP1 when I was having the problem. But in googling for an explanation for why it was bluescreening, I found a post saying that the drivers used a system call which was only added in SP2.> > That is correct. The drivers are prevented from loading by gplpv but > that results in Windows reporting an error on loading the drivers for > them. Xen 3.4 resolves this. >Perfect - thanks for the info. Regards, Jonathan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Jonathan Anderson <jonathan.b.andersonr@gmail.com> wrote:> I ended up using ''disable'' in device manager for the > rtl8139 and the old IDE driver as for some reason Windows still seems to be > detecting that the devices are around.You might want to re-enable the IDE driver. When something goes wrong and you have to boot with /NOGPLV or use safe mode the IDE driver will be needed again. Regards, Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:45 AM, James Harper > <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote: > >> documented somewhere, as the machine ended up bluescreening and Ihad> > to use > >> /NOGPLPV to get it to boot again so I could upgrade it to SP2. > > > > I don''t remember having any problems with w2k3sp1. > > I don''t think it was even SP1 when I was having the problem. But in > googling for an explanation for why it was bluescreening, I found a > post saying that the drivers used a system call which was only added > in SP2.Could it have been referring to XPsp2 and not W2K3sp2? I think there was a problem with XPsp1 and lower but I think I worked around that (I could be wrong though). James _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 4:16 AM, James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:>> I don''t think it was even SP1 when I was having the problem. But in >> googling for an explanation for why it was bluescreening, I found a >> post saying that the drivers used a system call which was only added >> in SP2. > > Could it have been referring to XPsp2 and not W2K3sp2? I think there was > a problem with XPsp1 and lower but I think I worked around that (I could > be wrong though). > > James >I just found the post - it looks like it was you :). http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.user/40381 I installed W2K3, it worked. I installed the GPLPV drivers, it didn''t work. I installed SP2 through windows update, it worked again. I''m tempted to look at slipstreaming both SP2 and the GPLPV drivers onto my windows CD. It would be nice to have it ''just work'' automatically. Regards, Jonathan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users