Release 0.9.9 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

Release 0.9.9 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

[James Harper]

I've just uploaded 0.9.9 to http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads

As a reminder, the wiki page is
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv

Nothing much changed from 0.9.9-pre3, except that from now on any
attempt to upgrade any of the 'child' devices of xenpci (eg xennet,
xenvbd, xenscsi, xenstub) will be met with a 'must reboot for this
change to take effect'. This should get around any problems of mixing
version, but will still allow 'xm block-detach' etc to work. I think I
may have fixed a BSoD on shutdown too (0x9f).

To upgrade to 0.9.9, you might be able to get away with booting
_without_ /gplpv and performing the upgrade, otherwise you'll need to
remove all trace of the drivers (see wiki) before installing 0.9.9.

I've been tinkering with signing the drivers (just with a self-signed
cert for now). It seems to work okay I'm just working on putting it into
the build script. One thing I found is that on my test server I had
signed 0.9.8 and so the unsigned 0.9.9 wouldn't automatically install as
windows prefers a signed driver over an unsigned one. Keep that in mind
if you've been signing drivers yourself!

Anyway, this release should be a lot more stable that 0.9.8.

James

Re: Release 0.9.9 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

[lith]

Hi, James, Thank you for your great work!

But I have problem using 0.9.9 driver:
My dom0 system is openSuse10.3 x86_64 with xen 3.1
after  windowsXP sp2 installation I use the 0.9.9 installer to install pv
drivers, no errors.
But when i boot windowsXP with /gplpv, the system hangs at "Windows
Xp"splash screen with the indicator rolling...I keep the windows running for
about 1 hours and the indicator is still rolling..
If I boot windows without /gplpv, everything is ok.
I reinstall a windows 2003 server and the problem is the same.
It seems that he situation is like
http://www.nabble.com/GPLV-Drivers-0.9.8-Windows-Server-2k3r2-on-Debian-Etch-64-bit-%2B-Backports-%2B-Xen-3.2.1-Crashed-on-first-boot.-td17763419.html#a17766911
http://www.nabble.com/GPLV-Drivers-0.9.8-Windows-Server-2k3r2-on-Debian-Etch-64-bit-%2B-Backports-%2B-Xen-3.2.1-Crashed-on-first-boot.-td17763419.html#a17766911 

What can I do to use 0.9.x the driver? As far as I know the 0.8.x driver
works for my system.

Thanks!




James Harper wrote:
> 
> I've just uploaded 0.9.9 to http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads
> 
> As a reminder, the wiki page is
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv
> 
> Nothing much changed from 0.9.9-pre3, except that from now on any
> attempt to upgrade any of the 'child' devices of xenpci (eg xennet,
> xenvbd, xenscsi, xenstub) will be met with a 'must reboot for this
> change to take effect'. This should get around any problems of mixing
> version, but will still allow 'xm block-detach' etc to work. I think I
> may have fixed a BSoD on shutdown too (0x9f).
> 
> To upgrade to 0.9.9, you might be able to get away with booting
> _without_ /gplpv and performing the upgrade, otherwise you'll need to
> remove all trace of the drivers (see wiki) before installing 0.9.9.
> 
> I've been tinkering with signing the drivers (just with a self-signed
> cert for now). It seems to work okay I'm just working on putting it into
> the build script. One thing I found is that on my test server I had
> signed 0.9.8 and so the unsigned 0.9.9 wouldn't automatically install as
> windows prefers a signed driver over an unsigned one. Keep that in mind
> if you've been signing drivers yourself!
> 
> Anyway, this release should be a lot more stable that 0.9.8.
> 
> James
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Xen-devel mailing list
> Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
> 
> 

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