Re: Windows "heinsenbug" (WAS: Re: Notes Design Session: Making Releases Lessons Learned: Improving Our Release Process and Tooling)

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julien Grall [mailto:julien.grall@arm.com]
> Sent: 25 September 2017 22:32
> To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>; Ian Jackson
> <Ian.Jackson@citrix.com>; Jan Beuli ch <jbeulich@suse.com>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>; Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>;
> ross.philipson@gmail.com; lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com; xen-
> devel@lists.xen.org; committers@xenproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Windows "heinsenbug" (WAS: Re: Notes Design
> Session: Making Releases Lessons Learned: Improving Our Release Process
> and Tooling)
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> On 09/14/2017 03:33 PM, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > Julien,
> >
> >    That should not be too hard. We have a driver install agent for XenServer
> that will manage all the necessary driver staging and required reboots.
> Hopefully it should mainly be a question of building that installer to pick up
> drivers from the upstream master branches rather than the internal
> XenServer branches. AFAIK osstest is using XenRT customized Windows
> images so hopefully we can use the slipstreamed XenRT agent to then fetch
> and run the driver installer. IIRC it sets some form of cookie in xenstore once
> it is done, so the rest of the test cycle would just need to wait for that to
> appear. >
> >    I'll look into how to progress this when I get back from the US.
> 
> I wanted to bump the discussion. Do you have any update here?
> 

A bit snowed for the next day or so, and unfortunately Ben (who maintains the installer) is on vacation until next week. I'll try to use a vanilla XenServer installer in a VM running on upstream and see if that works. If it does then we can probably just include running that in the osstest sequence. Using XenServer  PV drivers is probably prudent anyway, since they have already undergone extensive testing (albeit in a slightly different environment).

  Paul

> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Julien Grall
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