Re: GPL PV drivers for Windows - WDM version

[Florian Manschwetus <florianmanschwetus@gmx.de>]

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I would give it a try on my Win 2008 X64 until the clean shutdown and 
network is available

Florian

James Harper schrieb:
> I'm been busily converting the xenpci and xenvbd drivers from WDF to WDM
> to resolve a few issues including potential licensing problems with the
> Microsoft WDF and to (hopefully) allow them to function as boot drivers
> when doing install and system recovery.
> 
> It was a fairly major rewrite of xenpci, and xenvbd, which are now
> working (booting and running without crashes so far). I haven't touched
> xennet yet so it's broken atm, although it won't be too hard to get it
> working.
> 
> Also I have taken a different approach with xenhide and it should be a
> lot more robust than before (eg shouldn't get duplicate disks with the
> resulting corruption).
> 
> The graceful shutdown stuff in xenpci is also broken at this point, as
> is the ability to unload the xenpci driver (eg BSoD on shutdown).
> 
> Is anyone interested in testing these? Particularly those of you with
> the problem of the driver failing to 'hide' the qemu ATA disk(s) which
> resulted in corruption. If so I'll do a 'as it is' release asap,
> otherwise I'll wait until I've fixed the shutdown stuff in xenpci and
> gotten xennet up and running.
> 
> The latest wdm stuff is in the wdm branch in hg if anyone wants to build
> it themselves. I haven't tested the installer yet - maybe send me an
> email if you want to try it that way first. Otherwise just make sure you
> have removed _everything_ with 'xen' in it from the
> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet in the registry and don't use install.bat,
> just install using the update driver thing.
> 
> James
> 
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