Re: [win-pv-devel] v9.0.0 released

["Durrant, Paul" <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: win-pv-devel <win-pv-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
> Of Håkon Alstadheim
> Sent: 11 December 2019 17:04
> To: win-pv-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [win-pv-devel] v9.0.0 released
> 
> 
> Den 11.12.2019 09:29, skrev Durrant, Paul:
> > Can someone post a log of the qemu output (with xen_platform_log in the
> events file) so we can see what the PV drivers are doing?
> By that you mean contents of '/root/events' with 'device_model_args=[
> "-trace", "events=/root/events" ]' in the vm configuration?
>

Yes. Mine just contains:

xen_platform_log

on its own.

  Paul

 
> >
> > I generally do most of my testing against the latest Xen (i.e. 4.13).
> 4.8 should be fine though; the main differences from a Windoows PoV would
> be in the viridian enlightenment code, but that's orthogonal to the PV
> driver interfaces.
> I'm running 4.13
> >
> > I've trimmed out the cruft from the config I normally used and attached
> it. (I also normally boot Xen with a grant frame limit of 128, i.e. 4x the
> default).
> >
> >    Paul
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: win-pv-devel <win-pv-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
> Behalf
> >> Of Steffan Cline
> >> Sent: 10 December 2019 21:42
> >> To: win-pv-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: Re: [win-pv-devel] v9.0.0 released
> >>
> >> Håkon, this is what prompted me to ask everyone what cfg is being used
> >> with these new drivers in case it's a conflict caused by a flag/option
> I'm
> >> using.
> >>
> >> Paul, since these work for you, can you please share what you're using
> to
> >> ensure we're not using something in conflict?
> >>
> >> On another note, is there a specific xen version we should be using?
> >>
> >> # rpm -qa | grep xen
> >> xen-libs-4.8.5.75.g4c666a7e15-1.el7.x86_64
> >> xen-ovmf-20160905-1.gitbc54e50e0.el7.x86_64
> >> xen-hypervisor-4.8.5.75.g4c666a7e15-1.el7.x86_64
> >> centos-release-xen-common-8-7.el7.centos.x86_64
> >> xen-licenses-4.8.5.75.g4c666a7e15-1.el7.x86_64
> >> xen-runtime-4.8.5.75.g4c666a7e15-1.el7.x86_64
> >> centos-release-xen-8-7.el7.centos.x86_64
> >> xen-4.8.5.75.g4c666a7e15-1.el7.x86_64
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >> Steffan Cline
> >> steffan@xxxxxxxxx
> >> 602-793-0014
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12/10/19, 2:12 PM, "win-pv-devel on behalf of Håkon Alstadheim"
> <win-
> >> pv-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of
> >> hakon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>      Den 09.12.2019 22:20, skrev Steffan Cline:
> >>      > Does anyone have a specific config file they'd like to share
> that
> >> performs well with these newest drivers?
> >>      >
> >>      > On my Win 2016 Server, I removed the 8.2 drivers, rebooted,
> >> installed these and rebooted. It's been loading for about 30 minutes
> with
> >> the spinning dots non-stop.
> >>      >
> >>      Same here. Restored disk image from backup and tried again, and
> got
> >> same
> >>      second time. Left it for a day, still spinning. After destroying
> it,
> >> at
> >>      some point  I got "Can not access boot device" in the middle of
> that
> >>      pale blue screen. Trying to roll back using recovery point fails.
> >> (That
> >>      is the extent of the error message, just restore failed) . It
> /does/
> >>      show me the possible points I can revert to though, so it looks
> like
> >> it
> >>      is working until it doesen't. For the record I also uninstalled
> old
> >>      drivers first. First time around I also removed the Spice-thingy,
> >>      leaving only Qemu. Second time around I left both the Qemu and
> Spice
> >>      stuff in.
> >>
> >>      Going back to that image is rather painful, as the disk image
> takes
> >>      forever to copy to a new partition, and the backup I have is
> several
> >>      windows-updates old, and insist on running a backup first thing
> when
> >> it
> >>      gets moving :-/ .
> >>
> >>      Did a chkdsk from the installation-iso (which boots nicely with
> the
> >> same
> >>      config, except for "boot='dc'"). Found some minor nits w\chkdsk.
> Am
> >> now
> >>      trying to boot into safemode minimal. Not even a spinner showing,
> >>      "Times" column in the "xl list" display increases by about 0.4
> every
> >>      second, so it is doing /something/ ...
> >>
> >>
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