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Re: [Xen-users] GPLPV Network Driver causing VM crash

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] GPLPV Network Driver causing VM crash
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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:19:28 -0800
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Sweet.  Thanks James.  That did the trick.

Would this 3.3.0 bug affect the Windows VMs regardless of the PV drivers?


pace

James Harper wrote:
I'm running Xen 3.3.0 with AMD Opteron 2350s. Windows 2003 32bit
SP2+patches.

When I bring a Windows VM up with the GPLPV drivers, it runs until I
    
try
  
to do anything with the network and then it crashes.  Trying to web
    
browse
  
will lock the VM up, RDPing to it will lock the VM up.  I've tried
    
0.9.11
  
and 0.9.12pre13, both with the same results.  I've removed the
    
type=ioemu
  
from the vif line without any change as well.

Any ideas?

    

Add this to your domu config, all on one line:

cpuid =
['0x80000005:ecx=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxkkkkkkkk,edx=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxkkkkkkkk']

that will correct a bug in 3.3.0 where it wasn't exporting the cache
line size to windows, which would cause Windows to hang the first time
it received a packet making use of rx csum offload. It only affects AMD
cpu's.

James
  
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