Re: [Xen-devel] Bug: Windows 2003 fails to install on xen-unstable tip

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 29.04.13 at 10:40, Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>  -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jan Beulich [mailto:JBeulich@xxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 29 April 2013 09:38
>> To: Ian Campbell
>> Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit; Andrew Cooper; Paul Durrant; Roger Pau Monne;
>> George Dunlap; Eddie Dong; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Keir (Xen.org); Tim
>> (Xen.org)
>> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Bug: Windows 2003 fails to install on xen-unstable
>> tip
>> 
>> >>> On 29.04.13 at 10:20, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 07:53 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >> >>> On 26.04.13 at 18:56, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > So does the flag actually require *improper* behaviour from the RTC
>> >> > (emulated or otherwise)?
>> >>
>> >> Yes. Specifically it requires new interrupts to get raised even
>> >> when the guest never reads REG_C (i.e. not only when
>> >> RTC_IRQF transitions from 0 to 1).
>> >
>> > OK.
>> >
>> > 23965:6880bfc48504 says that Windows 8 requires this table, but does it
>> > also require us to set this bit? If our RTC emulation does require an
>> > ACK then it seems we should simply omit the bit (but not the table),
>> > will that work with both Win2k3 and Win8?
>> 
>> For Win2k3 it'll work (as I had tried out on Friday). But whether
>> any tests require the bit to be set for them to pass I don't know.
>> Which is why I included the original authors of that hvmloader
>> side change...
>> 
> 
> IIRC Microsoft said that the table must be present for certification of 
> Windows 8/Server 2012 but I can't remember whether they said that either of 
> the bits had to be set.

Do you have any way of finding out? As you surely realize, the
easiest fix for the problems we're having would be to turn that
bit off (and of course we should also double check whether the
other bit being set doesn't have any bad implications).

Jan


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