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

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:32:49PM -0600, Ken Cobler wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> 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?
> 

- What's your Xen version? What's your dom0 kernel version? 
- For the image file, did you use file: or tap:aio: ?
- For the physical partition, did you use phy: ?

And also please paste the whole /etc/xen/<guest> cfgfile.

-- Pasi


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