Release 0.9.7 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

Release 0.9.7 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

[James Harper]

I've just uploaded 0.9.7 to http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads

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

This release fixes a bug which would cause a BSoD if you tried using 'xm
block-detach', and also a bug which would cause formatting of a xenvbd
device to fail. The latter bug could also possibly have caused
corruption, although unlikely, so an upgrade is recommended.

Also, using a physical CDROM should now work, but I haven't been able to
do much testing with it as I've been away from my test machine. (anyone
know if Linux can emulate a block device with a sector size other than
512 bytes?

Hopefully an upgrade will be as simple as 'download and run', but during
testing I broke my test machine so I haven't properly tested an upgrade
from 0.9.[56] to 0.9.7.
 
James

Re: Release 0.9.7 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

[Joost van den Broek]

James Harper schreef:
> I've just uploaded 0.9.7 to http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads
>
> Hopefully an upgrade will be as simple as 'download and run', but during
> testing I broke my test machine so I haven't properly tested an upgrade
> from 0.9.[56] to 0.9.7.
>   
Unfortunately I get a BSoD when upgrading from 0.9.6, booted without 
/gplpv. I was however able to boot again with /gplpv specified, so no 
damage is done. What is the correct upgrade path for 0.9.x? Should I 
just follow the "pre-0.9.0" steps for this?

Joost