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Re: [win-pv-devel] Initial driver release



Il 04/09/2015 16:21, Paul Durrant ha scritto:
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From: Fabio Fantoni [mailto:fabio.fantoni@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 September 2015 15:13
To: Paul Durrant; win-pv-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [win-pv-devel] Initial driver release

Il 04/09/2015 15:08, Paul Durrant ha scritto:
Hi,

    We've been working hard here in Citrix to test all the (now) 8.1 drivers
and I think we're getting close to having all our tests and the latest Microsoft
logo tests pass. Hence I think it's probably time to create a 8.1-staging branch
for each of the drivers and tag an 8.1.0-rc1 for each of the drivers. I'll then
bump the versions in the master branches to 8.2.
    Cheers,

      Paul


Big thanks for all your work.
About signed drivers with xen project, are there any news? at least
build each component rc and stable builds with a certificate to avoid
windows 10 problem in case of automatic boot repair and major update
(seems only when windows build number increase) where after windows is
unable to boot (seems that disable testsigning) on domUs where new pv
drivers unsigned are installed, W10 (on same dom0 and with same xl
parameters) with gplpv signed are still working instead.
If I remember good this is blue screen of first case (after tried
windows auto boot repair) and the second is same:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/win-pv-devel/2015-
08/pngS7ZYFAuB3k.png

Windows 10's behaviour does seem to be annoying. I think getting an EV cert and 
signing release builds is probably feasible but there's no way we can sign 
every development build via the Microsoft portal so to some extent everyone is 
going to have to live with the problem by turning test-signing on and 
re-enabling after any such update (assuming you can still hit F8 and disable 
signature verification to allow the VM to boot).

   Paul

I already tried F8 (before windows load and also on blue screen) and enter on blue screen in many way but I not found working "repair" solution for now. I suppose that there a windows bug about. I not tried latest insider build for now (I'll try probably next week). In any case now that windows (10) is a "rolling-release" with automatic update "mandatory" (only delayable) is a big problem. Any workaround for devel builds (still unsigned) on testing systems it is appreciated but signing of stable release for production windows 10 domUs seems needed or will be a "bloodbath" each time that W10 automatically disabled testsigning :(

Thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english.

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