Re: Xen 3.4.0 - Windows 2008 Lockup

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>]

On 23/05/2009 12:09, "Teck Choon Giam" <giamteckchoon@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Something timing/timer related must have chnaged in 3.4 to make this more
>> likely. However it is not impossible you could see that bluescreen on 3.3
>> too! And there is a workaround on 3.4 which does not exist on 3.3 -- add
>> viridian=1 to your domain config file. This will tell Windows it is running
>> on a hypervisor and thus to relax its timer checks.
> 
> I actually tried that before reverting when initially hitting this
> lockup issue then I search the mailing list and ended up with this:
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-04/msg01050.html

Tim Deegan posted a patch at the end of that thread. Could you try it? I
didn't apply it for 3.4 since the patch didn't get any responses in that
email thread.

 -- Keir