Re: Installing WinPV drivers on Windows 2019

[Håkon Alstadheim <hakon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 4:21 PM Håkon Alstadheim
> <hakon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Den 09.06.2020 04:39, skrev Steffan Cline:
> > > My experience has shown that once the drivers are installed, you cannot upgrade them. I’ve tried so many different ways 
> > > with versions back to 8.0, I think, and it always ends up forcing me to rebuild the MBR and all kids of other things in Windows 
> > > I never wanted to learn. Even then there’s only a 20% chance I can make it work. I’ve just come to know that once 
> > > they’re installed, that’s it. Need new drivers, do a fresh build. Paul copied someone else from this list but I 
> > > don’t think I ever saw a response. I’ll have to search all my older emails.
> > My experience with 8.* was upgrading was doable. Have not been able to
> > upgrade to 9.0.0 (windows can't find boot drive). Tried the development
> > build on a throw-away-copy of my main windows VM, and (with test-signing
> > enabled) it runs. Did not run any tests or look closely at anything,
> > since I don't want to run with test-signing. Eagerly awaiting 9.1 :-) .
> Den 09.06.2020 23:38, skrev Dustin Marquess:
> What I did with 9.0.0 was to switch just the virtual CD/DVD drive over
> to it first (eg, only change hdd -> vxdd or whatever).  Let it boot
> and find it.  Then I shut it down and THEN switched the HDD over.
>
> That way it seems like it causes Windows to "register" the driver
> completely, and then it's happy/fine.
That does not work with Xen 4.13, as it will give you PV devices no 
matter if you specify hdX or xvdX. I could of course downgrade Xen, 
update drivers the way you describe, and then upgrade Xen again. :-)