Re: [Xen-users] GPLPV drivers update

Jingyun He
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:28:36 -0000

Hi,
I just installed this new PV drivers, the vps will show a blue screen and
never boot up again if we do a reboot.
but it can boot by ''xm create''

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:37 AM, James Harper
<james.harper@bendigoit.com.au
> wrote:

> I have just uploaded a new testing version of GPL PV drivers for
> Windows. Have a look for 0.10.0.97-dontuse at
> http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads (the -dontuse bit is to scare
> people away who haven''t read this email :)
>
> As usual, please test thoroughly on a test DomU and make sure you have a
> backup before installing on a non-test system. In particular, I''m
only
> testing with Xen 3.4.1 these days so anything older isn''t tested
> although it should work.
>
> There was a problem with the signing of the drivers that would prevent
> them working properly under Vista/2008 x64 even with testsigning
> enabled. This should resolve that.
>
> The installation procedure for Vista/2008 x64 is as follows:
> . Run ''bcdedit /set testsigning on''
> . Reboot
> . Install the drivers. Accept any warnings and tick ''always
trust...''
> when prompted.
> . Make sure you now have PV network and SCSI adapters present
> . Reboot
>
> If something doesn''t work, you should be able to boot to safe mode
> unless you forgot to run ''bcdedit /set testsigning on'' in
which case you
> will probably have an unbootable system... for some reason the vista F8
> boot menu doesn''t allow you to turn on testsigning and safe mode
at the
> same time. Ideally the installer would be able to detect that we are
> using a test certificate and instruct you to turn on testsigning first
> but I don''t yet know how to do that. I''ll see if I can at
least put in a
> loud warning at installation time...
>
> James
>
>
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