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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] boot a existing windows in hvm domain


  • To: "Keir Fraser" <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Mats Petersson" <mats@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, AL.LINUX@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • From: "Brady Chen" <chenchp@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 11:05:15 +0800
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Keir, Mats, Archie, and all others
Thank you guys all.

I just read this
thread:http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-05/msg01442.html

seems Randy Thelen tried to fix this issue one year ago, unfortunately
that patch doesn't work for me.

Finally I think we have the conclusion that I have to give it up on my
T60 Laptop now.
But I'd like to try in this way:
install windows in xen hvm guest, and then try to boot it in native
environment. Hope it works.

BTW, Keir, Mats, Any plan/schedule to support a full functional real
mode simulator? Or do you know anyone are working on this? thanks



On 8/9/07, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/8/07 18:45, "Mats Petersson" <mats@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > At 17:19 08/08/2007, Keir Fraser wrote:
> >> No, it's a processor mode halfway between real mode and protected mode 
> >> which
> >> all x86 processors support, but which vmxassist is really rather bad at
> >> handling. If this is a big-real-mode copy loop then that might explain why
> >> the loop is executing so bizarrely, and may mean you are out of luck until
> >> we retire vmxassist.
> >
> > And the fact that EDI is 0xC33FE when it tries to write to the memory
> > at address of EDI indicates that it's Big-Real-Mode.
>
> Yes, that's a giveaway.
>
> So I think the 'fix' here is to not try booting your native Windows
> partition on Xen. It's not likely to work too well anyway, as it'll look
> like all your hardware has changed, causing activation problems and also big
> driver changes whenever you switch between running on Xen and running
> natively.
>
> You're better off having a dedicated Xen Windows installation, perhaps on an
> LVM partition.
>
> The problems that others have been seeing are quite likely not the same root
> cause as yours. Most times there's an early boot problem it will end up with
> a trap and backtrace in vmxassist, when running on Intel CPUs.
>
>  -- Keir
>
>

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