RE: [Xen-users] Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + physical drive or partition

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> I have an odd problem, but, easy to replicate.
> 
> Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + Windows 2003 guest.  I've tried this on both
> 0.10.0.138 and 0.10.0.142 drivers.
> 
> If the hard drive is an image file (loaded and set in the xen config
> file), Windows 2003 guest boots and runs great with the GPLPV drivers.
> 
> If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest
> boots and runs fine with the QEMU drivers.
> 
> If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest
> boots and runs with the GPLPV drivers for about 3-5 minutes. At the
> time, the entire machine locks up and I have to power cycle machine to
> recover (no mouse, or keyboard response).
> 
> I even took the crashed Windows 2003 partition, dd copied to a file,
> setup xen to point to the image file instead of phy device.  The
Windows
> 2003 guest came up with the GPLPV drivers and ran great.
> 
> Is there something else that I am not doing correct to get the Windows
> 2003 guest to run stable with the GPLPV drivers on a physical
partition?
> 

Can you send me the contents of /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-<domname>.log at
the point where the hang occurs?

I use phy: on lvm partitions almost exclusively and have no problems. I
use mostly 32 bits but I've definitely used 64 bits for well over 3-5
minutes without problems.

James

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