From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keir Fraser Subject: Re: Xen 3.4.0 - Windows 2008 Lockup Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 12:15:41 +0100 Message-ID: References: <9b5c9bb30905230409q2a8a0f55u38cba6f98c9f0eae@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9b5c9bb30905230409q2a8a0f55u38cba6f98c9f0eae@mail.gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Teck Choon Giam , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 23/05/2009 12:09, "Teck Choon Giam" 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