Re: [Xen-users] Windows PV drivers

[Éliás Tamás <et@xxxxxxx>]

Hi.

> Are you able to advise what I might have done wrong in this process?
Seemes to me correct, I'm just missing a step, where the system asks for
wether or not to trust "Linux foundation", when installing the drivers?!

Start a CMD.EXE as admin, and pls see dpinst.exe /? options. I recommend
to first do a complete uninstallation (and if you have older drivers
like glpv, uninstall them as well).

By manually starting dpinst.exe you will have more options to see what
has failed. What is written in the system logs/application log? There
must be a reasoning there.

>
>> However, as a personal experience, I recommend for you to wait till the
>> final release of
>>
>> https://xenbits.xen.org/pvdrivers/win/8.2.0/
>>
>> (logo testing is just done, so we can expect the signed version withi
>> 1-2 months hopefully)
> 
> Do you mean because it is easier to install, or because it is more
> stable (fixes some bugs in 8.1.0)?

It is installed absolutely the same way, it has just a more mature more
compatible and generally better codebase.

> Is it possible to simply install the current version of 8.2.0, and then
> update when the final release is done?

It is, but currently those drivers are not signed, which menas, you have
to enable testsigning if you want them to work. (BCDEDIT.EXE
/TESTSIGNING ON)

> 
> Regards,
> Adam
> 
>> 2017-01-04 14:26 keltezéssel, Adam Goryachev írta:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm in the process of upgrading from xen 4.1 to xen 4.4 and have a
>>> number of windows domU's running Windows Server 2012R2 with one of the
>>> ejb versions of the GPLPV drivers installed.
>>>
>>> Can anyone advise which are the best drivers to install for production
>>> use today, and how they went about installing them?
>>>
>>> So far, I've managed to boot my testing domU under 4.4, but I can't
>>> install the drivers form
>>> https://xenproject.org/downloads/windows-pv-drivers.html even after
>>> installing the certificate.
>>>
>>> I would prefer to use debian testing, but would I perhaps be better off
>>> switching to XenServer and using the XenServer version of the PV
>>> drivers? Or can I use the XenServer version of the drivers with plain
>>> debian + xen?
>>>
>>> Would appreciate any advice from others who have managed to get this to
>>> work well, especially in a production environment.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
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