RE: [Xen-users] Release 0.9.5 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

["Geoff Wiener" <gwiener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi James;

There wasn't any output from debugview unfortunately.  I have another,
unrelated question for you if you don't mind.  I don't know if this is
meant to work or not (supported at this stage) so I thought I would ask.
Is it possible to have more than one file backed disk in a DomU using
your drivers?  I tried this using file:/ for two raw image files (not
sparse) and ran into an issue.   The first disk works fine and continues
to work in all cases, the second disk, however, appears in Device
Manager in two places "Disk Drives" and SCSI and RAID Controllers and
then under Disk Management.  I have tried every available option for
partition type on both basic and dynamic disks and get the same result.
I can create the partition but when I try to format the disk it gets to
100% then complains "Logical Disk Manager: The format did not complete
successfully".  It then shows the disk as healthy but it's impossible to
use the partition.  It claims that it's still unformatted.  I used
diskpart to have a closer look at the disk and interestingly it report:

Disk: Disk1, Status: online, Size, 2039 MB, Free 0B

I have definitely created a 2 GB RAW file in Dom0 and it is not sparse
(confirmed with du-ah).

Is this supposed to work or am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks

Geoff


-----Original Message-----
From: James Harper [mailto:james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 04 June 2008 4:47 AM
To: Geoff Wiener; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Release 0.9.5 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

> Hi James;
> 
> Ok I found some more information
> 
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/blktap
> 
> Finally I did what you asked.
> 
> *     Created a raw image
> *     Booted the DomU with file:/raw-image
> *     used  xm block-attach 7 tap:aio:/xenimages/xana/xana.qcow xvdb w
> 0 to add a "qcow2" disk to the running instance (the same qcow2 image
> that causes a BSOD when used as the boot device)
> *     PnP found new hardware, Welcome to the found new hardware
> wizard, "Yes this time only"
> *     Xen Block Device Driver, Install the software automatically
> (recommended)
> *     Unsigned warning, Continue anyway
> *     Then at the "please wait while the wizard installs the software,
> XenBlock Device Driver (little flying paper from one folder to the
other
> above the xenvbd.sys To: c:\windows\system32\drivers... went forever.
> Eventually I killed "run32dll" and ended the PNP process all the while
> debugview sat quietly and didn't report a single thing.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

Not at this stage no. I compiled in the tap module to work with my
Debian system, but it still doesn't work for me so I can't test at this
point.

The output of debugview might be useful.

James


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