RE: [Xen-users] RE: [Xen-devel] GPLPV drivers 0.9.12-pre9 upload

["Venefax" <venefax@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear James
I removed the offending service as well as other left overs from the Suse
Drivers and now my windows blue screens with 
Stop: 0x0000007B(0xf789EA94,0xC0000034,00000000,000000)
I have no idea how to boot Windows in safe mode. Is this possible? How do
you press F8, and if you did manage to boot in safe mode, what then?
Federico

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[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Harper
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 8:50 PM
To: James Harper; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
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Subject: [Xen-users] RE: [Xen-devel] GPLPV drivers 0.9.12-pre9 upload

> 1. Windows 2000 is no longer included in the binary distribution. It
> didn't work.
> 
> 2. qemu network and disk adapters are disabled, but will now appear as
> having failed due to a change in the hiding code. This is cosmetic
> (you'll get a warning on start that a service or driver failed to
start)
> but the effect is the same, except you won't get strange things
> happening as a result of pci devices just disappearing - I was seeing
> delays in places during startup and shutdown.
> 
> 3. If you are using the latest Xen 3.3.1 hg (maybe 3.3.0 too?), the
> qemu_disable_patches.diff patch applied to the ioemu-remote git repo
> (after 'make tools' has downloaded it, or after you've updated it to
the
> latest) will completely remove the ide disks and network interfaces,
> leaving the cdroms as emulated by qemu. This is how things should be
> going forward - qemu cdrom's means you get eject and virtual image
swap
> etc, and performance on a cdrom is hardly critical. Hopefully these
> patches will make it into Xen 3.4.
> 
> 4. Please test in a dev environment. I haven't broken my test servers
> during upgrade or anything, but testing first is just common sense.
> 
> 5. 64 bit block addressing is in place but not really tested. If you
> have block devices >1TB that didn't work previously, please give it a
go
> and let me know.
> 
> 6. Save+restore is working for me at the moment, please report any
> issues.
> 

Forgot one important thing. /GPLPV isn't required anymore. Use /NOGPLPV
to disable the device drivers, or boot into safe mode which will also
disable them.

James

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