On 29/08/17 14:33, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 02:24:49PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> On 29/08/17 09:50, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>>> Commit 149c6b unmasked an issue long present in Xen: the control/event
>>> block addresses provided in the ACPI FADT table where hardcoded to the
>>> V1 version. This was papered over because hvmloader would also always
>>> set HVM_PARAM_ACPI_IOPORTS_LOCATION to 1 regardless of the BIOS
>>> version.
>>>
>>> Fix this by passing the address of the control/event blocks to
>>> acpi_build_tables, so the values can be properly set in the FADT
>>> table provided to the guest.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>
>>> ---
>>> Cc: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhi...@citrix.com>
>>> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
>>> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>
>>> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com>
>>> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>
>>> ---
>>> This commit should fix the qumu-trad Windows errors seen by osstest.
>>
>> This changes windows behaviour, but does not fix windows.  Windows now
>> boots, but waits forever while trying to reboot after installing PV
>> drivers.  There is no hint in the qemu log that the ACPI shutdown event
>> was received.
>>
>> Unless someone has some very quick clever ideas, the original fix will
>> need reverting.
> 
> If I don't get a new fix by the end of today I'm going to revert Igor's
> patch (but keep Roger's patch in tree).
> 

I guess the easiest way to overcome it would be to set "qemu-xen" as a
device-model in libxl unconditionally.

Igor

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