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RE: Re[Xen-devel] lease 0.8.4 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

To: "jamesshirley" <james.shirley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Re[Xen-devel] lease 0.8.4 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:14:58 +1100
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> 
> My VM now has died, just sitting at Windows 2003 Loading screen and
never
> finishing.

Hmm... that was supposed to have been fixed in 0.8.4. I guess your crash
is probably caused by the duplication though.

> 2. An unknown PCI device which i couldn't find any drivers for with
the
> following details:
> 
> device id=PCI\VEN_5853&DEV_0001&SUBSYS_00015853&REV_01\2&EBB567F&0&18
> 
> hardware id=PCI\VEN_5853&DEV_0001&SUBSYS_00015853&REV_01
> PCI\VEN_5853&DEV_0001&SUBSYS_00015853
> PCI\VEN_5853&DEV_0001&CC_FF8000
> PCI\VEN_5853&DEV_0001&CC_FF80
> 
> not sure if this is causing the PV drivers any probs

That is the PCI device that the XenPCI driver should attach to.

> 3. install 0.8.4, but got an error when install ShutdownMon, i assume
this
> is only for xm shutdown to function, and not PV driver related:
> 
> Z:\software\windows\xen\WindowsXenPV-0.8.4>install
> Windows 2003 (i386) Detected... Installing...
> 
> Unhandled Exception: System.Security.SecurityException: That assembly
does
> not allow partially trusted callers.
>    at
>
System.Security.CodeAccessSecurityEngine.ThrowSecurityException(Assembly
> asm, PermissionSet granted, PermissionSet refused, Ru
> ntimeMethodHandle rmh, SecurityAction action, Object demand,
IPermission
> permThatFailed)
>    at ShutdownMon.Program.Main(String[] args)
> The action that failed was:
> LinkDemand
> The assembly or AppDomain that failed was:
> ShutdownMon, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
> The Zone of the assembly that failed was:
> Internet
> The Url of the assembly that failed was:
> file:///Z:/software/windows/xen/WindowsXenPV-0.8.4/ShutdownMon.exe
> Done

I assume Z: is a network drive. Copy the entire xen directory to C:\xen.
.NET is a but funny about running stuff not from the local machine.

> 
> suspect file system corruption
> 

That is quite likely.

James

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