From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joost van den Broek Subject: Re: Windows GPL PV Drivers 0.9.9-pre2 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:52:16 +0200 Message-ID: <485289A0.2030703@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: James Harper Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, xen-users@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org James Harper schreef: > I've just uploaded a prerelease of 0.9.9 to > http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads/ > > Please read the following before using: > > It fixes a few disk related bugs... I've just been testing it on a > Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 I have just restored from tape > into a DomU from a backup of a physical system and it's working fine - > 0.9.8 BSOD'd almost immediately and then left me with a corrupt > filesystem, so that not happening with 0.9.9 is a good sign. Also, > hdtune now works for me without any problems, although performance is > sucky because it uses unaligned memory buffers. > > The thing that's bugging me at the moment is how to make upgrades from > previous versions work nicely. Part of the problem is that some of the > drivers BSOD on close sometimes, which I should be able to fix if I can > catch it happening, but the main problem is that xenpci 0.9.8 (probably) > isn't going to work with xennet 0.9.9, and when windows upgrades the > drivers it will know that it has to upgrade xenpci next boot so it > defers it (because xenvbd is using it to manage the system drive), but > knows that it can upgrade xennet now, which introduces the version > mismatches. > > I think booting without gplpv, performing the upgrade, then booting with > gplpv again might be a workaround but I'm not even sure if that will > work reliably, although probably more from the driver bugs. > > In previous versions it would also have been sufficient just to copy the > .sys files to system32\drivers, but even that won't work with this > version as there is a new device filter installed for xenvbd (and soon > xenscsi), and there are associated .inf file updates. > > Any and all suggestions greatly appreciated. Any testing anyone can do > to tell me what works and what doesn't also appreciated, at least then I > can document it on the wiki. > > Thanks > > James > Thanks James, seems like these drivers are again a little bit faster than before. Now I can run JkDefrag and HDtune without BSOD's so that's very nice. Interesting to see is that JkDefrag's drive analyse seems to be much faster done now than with 0.9.6. Joost