RE: [Xen-users] GPLPV (9.11pre20) in Win2003x64onXenServerEnterprise 5.0 (CD drive missing)

[Roel Broersma <roel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi James (and peter),

Here i am again, sorry for the delay but i had some problems  (and again...
lot's of feedback ;) )
As promised i tried to install a NEW VM from scratch (Windows Server 2003
X64 R2 Standard) and then install the GPLPV drivers.. i needed to know if it
had to do with booting with-or-without a CD loaded...

So i installed a new VM from scratch.. and there things went wrong...
In a new VM with NO XenPVTools, i get a BSOD when installing the GPLPV
drivers.
I made a new topic for this problem:
http://www.nabble.com/PV-0.9.12pre3-gives-BSOD-when-installing-in-VM-in-Xenserver-5.-tt20607865.html

After we solved that and we are able to install the GPLPV drivers in a
brand-new-clean VM, i will continue testing for this topic.

Roel



James Harper wrote:
> 
>> (corrected! I meant PV 0.9.12, not PV 0.9.11)
>> 
>> Hello James,
>> 
>> I just downloaded the PV 0.9.12 and installed to a Windows 2003 32-bit
>> guest. It seems like the CD ROM drive doesn't turn up (shows) until a
> CD
>> is inserted before the guest is booted. If the drive is empty before
> boot,
>> the drive is also gone from hardware.
>> 
>> If it's loaded before boot, I can view the content of the CD. But if I
>> then eject the CD and load (insert) another one, the contents will not
>> change. It will still show the contents from the first CD.
>> 
> 
> I don't think that there is an easy way of detecting disk changes at the
> moment.
> 
> I rely on the backend presenting me with 'sectors' and 'sector-size'
> values, and obviously these can't be computed if there is no actual CD
> inserted so I fail the connection. XenServer appears to act a little
> differently - I haven't seen those scsi mode pages in the open source
> version.
> 
> Roel doesn't appear to be using a physical CD drive though, just an
> image, so I don't think this is his problem.
> 
> James
> 
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