RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Xen/IPF Unstable CS#17292 Status Report

["Mu, Qin" <qin.mu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, 

This Windows guest boot failure only happens when open guest firmware is used. 
Intel guest firmware is OK.

After simply investigating on this issue, I found that
        If a corresponding NVRAM file already exists:
                Then the Windows guest always can't be booted up.
        If no NVRAM exits && "Windows Server 2003" boot option is in order 1:
                Then the Windows guest can sometimes be booted up, but not 
always.

This issue occurred from CS# 17290. So I think this issue is not caused by Akio 
Takebe' patch (17292) :-)

I am using the pre-built binary included in efi-vfirmware of CS#99. Now I am 
trying to find the special action sequence that can certainly boot up Windows 
guest. 

Amy Mu







-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Williamson [mailto:alex.williamson@xxxxxx] 
Sent: 2008年3月25日 21:22
To: Akio Takebe
Cc: Mu, Qin; xen-ia64-devel
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Xen/IPF Unstable CS#17292 Status Report


On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 21:56 +0900, Akio Takebe wrote:
> Hi, Amy
> 
> >Failed case id                                       Description     
> >     SMPVTI_Windows                  SMPVTI windows(vcpu=2)
> >     SMPWin_SMPVTI_SMPxenU   SMPVTI Linux/Windows & XenU
> >     VTI_Windows_PV                  Windows VTI PV
> If my patch(17292) is revert, can you boot Windows guest?
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/xen-ia64-unstable.hg?rev/dba5f548b894
> 

   I booted a Win2k3 guest is my testing, so I'm curious about this too.
How did it fail?  Thanks,

        Alex

-- 
Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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