Re: [Xen-users] Xen 8.1 Windows drivers problem

[Éliás Tamás <et@xxxxxxx>]

Hi.

Let me connect to my previous email. After rebooting the hang up
systems, I loggied onto one. Check the attached screenshots. The
application log has no entries between

2016. dec 09. 17:52:32
and the actual reboot, which ahppened
2016. dec 10. 13:01:31

So I'm assuming that the guest was inaccessible since yesterday late
afternoon.

The system logs harmonizing with this, they show (2nd shot)

2016. dec. 09. 17:52:54 windows update finished installing some updates
(Before installation at 17:50 it shut down the SQL server on the pc to
install the security updates)

the next enty is

2016. dec. 10. 13:01:31 which says, that previous system shutdown was
unexpected.


2016-12-09 12:00 keltezéssel, Éliás Tamás írta:
> Hi. I have the same issues for a while now with different xen versions.
> 
> Basically we are now running xen 4.7.1 on ubuntu 16.04.1 lts hosts,
> all our gusets are HVM, using STUBDOMAINS and we are using the latest
> 8.1 series signed PV drivers.
> 
> All our windows 10 and windows 8.1 instances free (crash xen log: page
> fault at linear address) after a while (we could not determine the exact
> reason), and it is a nightmare to do the "edition upgrades", due to
> usually it hangs during the process and on the next boot windows
> restores the old build, and the process starts from the beginning.
> 
> I can provide you some interesting logs. Our VMs' config is based on the
> same template:
> 
> 
> name = "etit-template"
> 
> builder='hvm'
> device_model_stubdomain_override=1
> 
> memory=4097
> shadow_memory=32
> 
> disk=[
>         '/data/xen/vms/etit-template/disk.raw,raw,hda,w'
>         ]
> 
> vif=[
> 'bridge=xenbr4,ip=10.0.4.2,mac=00:16:3E:00:16:4F,model=e1000,type=vif' ]
> 
> 
> # boot on floppy (a), hard disk (c) or CD-ROM (d)
> boot="c"
> 
> on_reboot='restart'
> on_crash='preserve'
> on_poweroff='destroy'
> 
> xen_platform_pci=1
> 
> independent_wallclock= 1
> viridian=1
> vcpus=2
> cpus="2-3"
> hap=1
> superpages=1
> pvh=1
> 
> acpi=1
> apic=1
> localtime=1
> pae=1
> usb=1
> usbdevice='tablet'
> keymap='hu'
> 
> audio=0
> ne2000=0
> 
> vncunused=0
> vnc=1
> vncdisplay=4
> vncpasswd=''
> vnclisten='10.0.254.2'
> sdl=0
> opengl=0
> 
> 
> 2016-12-09 01:06 keltezéssel, Brandon Shoemaker írta:
>> Hello list,
>>
>>  
>>
>> I have been testing these new windows 8.1 drivers and have a strange
>> issue for months since they were released that I cannot figure out. 
>> I've been testing to see if the new drivers are stable for our
>> configuration and they are not for me.   I've rebuilt twice now Windows
>> 2008 R2 and 2012 R1 test VM's and they both become unresponsive after a
>> few days of essentially idling doing nothing.   I've noticed something
>> interesting in that the servers do still respond to ping's but it's like
>> the Windows GUI environment is crashed.  When I connect to VNC console
>> the console is crashed (e.g. blank and unresponsive).   This happens
>> repeatedly.  
>>
>>  
>>
>> Host server:
>>
>> CentOS 6.8 (fully updated)
>>
>> xen_version : 4.6.3-4.el6
>>
>> Xen is built via SolusVM slave script
>> (http://files.soluslabs.com/install.sh)
>>
>>  
>>
>> The same production Xen server is running other Windows only guests on
>> the previous drivers (ejbpv_Vista2008x64_1.0.1105.msi) without this
>> issue.  The Xen server has plenty of resources available.
>>
>>  
>>
>> I have installed all 5 driver packages of version 8.1 in each Windows
>> guest.  This is correct right?
>>
>>  
>>
>> Has anyone else had anything like this happen?
>>
>>  
>>
>> I'm lost as for what it could be.  I have a large amount of Xen servers
>> and Xen guests running the previous ejb drivers fine including on the
>> same host server as these test VM's.
>>
>>  
>>
>> I appreciate any suggestions if anyone has a suspicion what might be
>> happening. 
>>
>>  
>>
>> Is there perhaps a paid support option anywhere that I can get help in
>> troubleshooting this?
>>
>>  
>>
>> Finally, I was wondering will there ever be a point that anyone can
>> foresee that these older drivers (ejbpv_Vista2008x64_1.0.1105.msi) no
>> longer work?  I'm stuck in a situation where I cannot use these new
>> drivers until this problem is figured out and I have a large number of
>> VMs depending on these older drivers.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Brandon
>>
>>
>>
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