Re: [Xen-users] Release 0.9.9 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

["Kris Adler" <spurfan15@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have a Windows 2000 HVM install on which I'm trying to
install the GPLPV drivers. I followed the process, restarted, and put
the /gplpv in a copy of my os boot line. The thing is, there are no
errors, but nothing really changes. Looking in my device manager,
nothing looks different. I still have one unknown PCI device, which has
a Xen device ID from looking in the registry. None of the devices show
the gplpv drivers installed. I tried manually searching for drivers in the gplpv drivers folder for the unknown PCI device, but it couldn't find any.

My install is on a 5G LVM partition I made, along with a extra 5G
LVM I attached to the win2k OS. I installed from a standard win2k
installation disk, and had a SP4 disk to update the OS after install.
Am I missing Xen devices that should be listed or something? And why
isn't that unknown PCI device installing (Ven 5853, dev 0001)?

Regards,

Kris

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 1:18 PM, James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've just uploaded 0.9.9 to http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads

As a reminder, the wiki page is
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv

Nothing much changed from 0.9.9-pre3, except that from now on any
attempt to upgrade any of the 'child' devices of xenpci (eg xennet,
xenvbd, xenscsi, xenstub) will be met with a 'must reboot for this
change to take effect'. This should get around any problems of mixing
version, but will still allow 'xm block-detach' etc to work. I think I
may have fixed a BSoD on shutdown too (0x9f).

To upgrade to 0.9.9, you might be able to get away with booting
_without_ /gplpv and performing the upgrade, otherwise you'll need to
remove all trace of the drivers (see wiki) before installing 0.9.9.

I've been tinkering with signing the drivers (just with a self-signed
cert for now). It seems to work okay I'm just working on putting it into
the build script. One thing I found is that on my test server I had
signed 0.9.8 and so the unsigned 0.9.9 wouldn't automatically install as
windows prefers a signed driver over an unsigned one. Keep that in mind
if you've been signing drivers yourself!

Anyway, this release should be a lot more stable that 0.9.8.

James


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