Re: Reboot on *DOM0* while/after installing GPLPV drivers

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 04:37:45PM +0000, John Hayward wrote:
> I think this patch fixed the disk driver failure to prevent crash of dom0 but 
> did not address the underlying problem of the driver to properly register.  I 
> have not had time to verify this.

the PV drivers works fine with XP/2003. I don't have anything newer to test
with ...

> starting win7 on NetBSD-5.1.2 dom0 of:
> ====
> xenstore-read: couldn't read path /local/domain/0/backend/vif/22/0/vifname

This may, or may not be a problem.

> ====
> This occures both before and after I install the pci and network drivers.
> Before install of network drivers windows reports a realtek ethernet device
> After install of network drivers windows reports Xen Net Device Driver
> It does have the correct mac address.
> The interface does not get an IP via dhcp - if manually configured it still 
> cannot ping the default router for the network it should be on.

What does ifconfig and brconfig show for the virtual interface on
the dom0 side ?

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