hangs after install of PV drivers

Question

After installing the 32-bit PV drivers (0.97.4) on a 32-bit Windows Server 2003 SP2 guest, the system will hang and/or BSOD on subsequent reboots.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dom0: RHEL 5.3 x86_64 domU: Windows 2003 Server SP2 (32-bit) xenpv-win-32-bit-0.97.4-3.el5

How reproducible: always

Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create win2k3 guest 2. Install PV drivers 3. Reboot 4. Configure PV NIC driver 5. Reboot

Actual results:

System will hang immediately after login on final reboot

Expected results:

No hang

Additional info:

I've found that if I apply all the latest patches to Win2k3 after guest OS install that instead of a hang I get a BSOD. If I do not install the latest patches it simply hangs (totally unresponsive to all user input).

If I do not install the PV drivers, everything works fine. I can reboot multiple times with no issues. As I'm only utilizing the PV NIC in my configuration, my assumption is that the issue is with the PV NIC driver.

Answer 1

The issue is probablt with the PV disk controller driver. If you installed windows using generic IDE/SCSI, changing the controller type to PV will make the VM BSOD on boot.

The VM should have been installed with the PV drivers slipstreamed into the windows installation CD