[win-pv-devel] Win-pv driver install success fails to boot

[chris <tknchris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I am a previous gplpv user who recently came across this project and wanted to give a try to atleast help provide feedback and testing.

I downloaded the latest drivers via the tar files on this page:

http://www.xenproject.org/downloads/windows-pv-drivers/development-builds.html

I extracted and ran dpinst as noted in the readme txt  for each driver and saw that in device manager it created some new devices. NOTE this is a clean install and did not have gplpv or any other drivers previously 

I shutdown the domu, changed my disk and network lines to use the PV style:

'file:/mnt/vil1064/vil1064-ssd.img,xvda,w',

vif = ['type=netfront, bridge=xenbr0, mac=00:16:3D:37:A0:A3']

and when i tried to start it up, it gets stuck at windows 10 loading screen with the logo and the spinning wheel underneath. i left it for several hours and it never got any further nor did it bsod'd or reboot over and over.

i went  back and changed my config back to emulated interfaces and windows 10 does not start via the original config either

did i miss some critical step(s)? any ideas why the OS wont boot? whats he best to remove the drivers and try again?

i am a fairly technical linux and windows user and willing to invest some time to anything that will help so please let me know if theres any more info or anything i can do to give you more data

the dom0 is a up to date debian jessie, xl info gives:

release                : 3.16.0-4-amd64

version                : #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u5 (2015-10-09)

machine                : x86_64

nr_cpus                : 12

max_cpu_id             : 15

nr_nodes               : 2

cores_per_socket       : 12

threads_per_core       : 1

cpu_mhz                : 2100

hw_caps                : 178bf3ff:efd3fbff:00000000:00001300:00802001:00000000:000837ff:00000000

virt_caps              : hvm

total_memory           : 57342

free_memory            : 16455

sharing_freed_memory   : 0

sharing_used_memory    : 0

outstanding_claims     : 0

free_cpus              : 0

xen_major              : 4

xen_minor              : 4

xen_extra              : .1

xen_version            : 4.4.1

xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64 

xen_scheduler          : credit

xen_pagesize           : 4096

platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000

xen_changeset          : 

xen_commandline        : placeholder dom0_mem=1024M

cc_compiler            : gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2

cc_compile_by          : ultrotter

cc_compile_domain      : debian.org

cc_compile_date        : Thu Jun 11 18:24:17 EEST 2015

xend_config_format     : 4

chris

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