Re: [Xen-devel] GPLPV + Xen Unstable BSOD

[Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:24 PM, James Harper
<james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> James,
>>
>> Are there known issues with GPLPV and Xen unstable? I tried to load
>> 0.9.11 onto Windows XP SP2 32 bit with 2 CPUS and after the 3rd prompt
>> for driver signing I get a BSOD with error code 7E
>> (SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED).
>>
>
> I haven't tested with -unstable so I can't comment. If you can spare the
> time (and aren't afraid of your DomU getting hosed), please test with
> "Xen PV Drivers 0.9.12-pre15-dont-use.exe". That includes the TPR
> patching which will give you a big performance boost under XP (and 2003
> < sp2). You need to specify /PATCHTPR on the boot.ini to get that effect
> though.

I tried "Xen PV Drivers 0.9.12-pre15-dont-use.exe" and got the same
BSOD with 7E error code.

I have a spare system running Xen unstable which has a freshly
installed xp vm on lvm snapshot, so I can do as much testing as
necessary to help get this working.

Please let me know what I need to do to help you fix this.

Andy

>
> I'm in the middle of some fairly major changes at the moment, but it's
> looking good so far.
>
> James
>

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