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RE: [Xen-users] drivers to run windows as HVM guest

To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] drivers to run windows as HVM guest
From: "Sebastian Reitenbach" <sebastia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:19:43 +0200
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Hi,

"James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> > > However, I also installed XP Pro from scratch in Xen, and then
> installed
> > > the GPL PV drivers there. After the installer was done, windows
> detected
> > > the new hardware and installed the drivers.
> > Doh! I was too fast with saying so. At the end of the installation,
> the
> > installer said, there was an error, The device cannot be started (Code
> 10)
> > (freely translated from German)
> > 
> 
> When you don't have /GPLPV in your boot.ini file, the drivers will
> deliberately fail to load with that 'Code 10' error. The reason for this
> is that if qemu and gplpv both give windows access to the same
> underlying disk or disk image, you get the same results as if you
> mounted the same volume in two domains - eg complete corruption
> 
> Maybe if you put /GPLPV in your boot.ini file as per the wiki
> documentation you might have some luck?
I overlooked the link to the other page, where its exactly described how and 
where to add the /gplpv.

After adding the /gplpv and rebooting the box, the drivers were installed.

Now I go try and edit the boot.ini file on the image that I copied from the 
physical box, and try copying the *sys and *inf files there too, hopefully 
the BSOD will be gone then.

Are these driver installers doing more than just copying the *inf and *sys 
files into the correct places? In case they do more, what would that be?

However, I also tried to activate shutdownmon, but this still fails:
ShutdownMon.exe -i
produces a popup window, with the following contents(freely translated from 
German):
The application could not be initialized correctly (0x0000135).
Klick "OK" to close the application.


kind regards
Sebastian


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