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RE: [Xen-devel] XCP PV driver

> 
> On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 22:21 +0000, James Harper wrote:
> > >
> > > Is the latest GP PV driver, signed and will it install on 2008
without
> > > requiring "bcdedit driver signing off"?
> > >
> >
> > It's test signed. You have to turn testsigning on for 64 bit
windows.
> 
> Is that process documented somewhere? I was trying to install gplpv
> drivers on 2008r2 yesterday to try and repro a backend bug and
couldn't
> get it to work.

bcdedit /set testsigning on

or something like that

> 
> http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv/Installing seems to cover
an
> older more manual installation process which didn't appear to apply to
> the .msi I downloaded. There is a link to an MS document on how to
> actually test sign a driver but nothing on how to allow test signing
in
> the OS. The link is now a redirect on the MS end so perhaps the
previous
> content of that link was more useful?
> 
> Pressing F8 on boot and disabling driver signing didn't help, the
> installer still aborted with a message about turning off driver
signing.
> 

Yeah. Better to not install than to install and break.

James

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