Seventh release candidate for Xen 3.3.0

Seventh release candidate for Xen 3.3.0

[Keir Fraser]

The seventh release candidate is now tagged in the xen-unstable.hg
repository, as '3.3.0-rc7'. This shares the same tag as -rc6 in the
ioemu-remote repository (xen-3.3.0-rc6).

 http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg

This fixes an x86 HVM emulation issue introduced in -rc6 which caused
certain guests (Win98 and OS2, for example) to fail to boot. The fixes which
introduced this issue still need wider testing, so please give -rc7 a spin!

 -- Keir

Re: Seventh release candidate for Xen 3.3.0

[Teck Choon Giam]

> This fixes an x86 HVM emulation issue introduced in -rc6 which caused
> certain guests (Win98 and OS2, for example) to fail to boot. The fixes which
> introduced this issue still need wider testing, so please give -rc7 a spin!

I got error "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" for HVM guests for installation
for windows vista and -rc5 used to work without issue.  I noticed a
new changeset has been committed
http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg?diff/6fc154f0827e/xen/arch/x86/hvm/emulate.c

I will try for xen-3.3.0-rc8-pre changeset 18353 and if I encounter
same error will report back with log.

Thanks.

Kindest regards,
Giam Teck Choon

Re: Seventh release candidate for Xen 3.3.0

[Keir Fraser]

On 20/8/08 16:19, "Teck Choon Giam" <giamteckchoon@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> I got error "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" for HVM guests for installation
> for windows vista and -rc5 used to work without issue.  I noticed a
> new changeset has been committed
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg?diff/6fc154f0827e/xen/arch/x86/hv
> m/emulate.c
> 
> I will try for xen-3.3.0-rc8-pre changeset 18353 and if I encounter
> same error will report back with log.

Thanks, -rc6 (the release candidate before the changeset you link to) was
rather broken. The bluescreen is probably Windows getting an unexpected
exception in interrupt context.

 -- Keir

Re: Seventh release candidate for Xen 3.3.0

[Teck Choon Giam]

> Thanks, -rc6 (the release candidate before the changeset you link to) was
> rather broken. The bluescreen is probably Windows getting an unexpected
> exception in interrupt context.

FYI, rc8-pre works fine without that error "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" ;)

Thanks.

Kindest regards,
Giam Teck Choon