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From: Fabio Fantoni
Sent: 15 September 2015 12:06
To: Paul Durrant;Joel Noyce-Barnham;win-pv-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [win-pv-devel] PV Drivers Offline Removal

Il 15/09/2015 10:59, Paul Durrant ha scritto:

Joel,

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Â Offline removal should be quite possible. The thing that needs to be cleaned up to make sure the image will reboot are the âunplugâ values that are used early on in boot to request unplug of emulated devices in QEMU. Look under HKLM/system/currentcontrolset/services/xen and you should see a key called âUnplugâ. If you delete that key then the next reboot should use emulated devices and so should be fine with no PV drivers.

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Hi I'm unable to boot windows 10 after new pv drivers uninstall, I removed them from control panel, I also executed a bat I posted some months ago here for remove other related things, I tried also to remove the registry key above, with both ide and ahci disk, with xen_platform_pci=0 but in all cases gave me always INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE blue screen :(
Someone know other things I can try?

First test with uninstall only from control panel game me also a more important problem (here there are also dom0 and domU details): http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/win-pv-devel/2015-09/msg00063.html

Thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english.

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From: win-pv-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:win-pv-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joel Noyce-Barnham
Sent: 14 September 2015 18:21
To: win-pv-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [win-pv-devel] PV Drivers Offline Removal

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Hi All,

We are currently using the GPLPV drivers but are hoping to move to the new Xen WINPV drivers as they are actively developed and have some new features which we are interested in. We currently have a process where VMs can be moved from our Xen hypervisor into EC2. This process relies on the fact that we are able to remove the drivers from an offline image. Previously we have been removing the drivers successfully by converting the disk images to a VHD file, using Dism to remove the drivers (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-GB/library/dd744355%28v=ws.10%29.aspx) and then importing the resulting VHD into EC2. This works with the GPLPV drivers but with the new WINPV drivers it creates an unbootable image (the import into EC2 fails and the image can also not be booted on the original hypervisor).

I have found some previous posts on this mailing list (http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/win-pv-devel/2015-03/msg00076.html) discussing removing the drivers and I am able to successfully remove the drivers from an online image but sadly our process requires that this removal be performed offline.

I am just wondering if anyone else is using Dism in windows to remove the PV drivers from an offline image? Or if anyone else has successfully removed the WINPV drivers from an offline image at all? Any pointers anyone can give would be appreciated. The only way we have so far found to make the image boot after removing the drivers with Dism is by manual modification of a large number of registry keys which seems like a far from ideal solution.

Thanks for any help,
Joel

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