Citrix Windows Pv Drivers
Windows PV Drivers xenserver pv However, in order to make use of all xenserver pv card adapter features, you must install a proper LAN driver that enables the hardware. Copying virtual disk images VDIs is a common CloudStack operation used during both the initial pg of a VM instance, and also during snapshot operations. The Windows PV Driver Subproject is developing these drivers under Xen Project governance. One of the reasons to do this, is to make the drivers more easily signable and distributable via the Windows driver update mechanism.
Our EC2 Instance (Windows Server 2008) crashed multiple times for the past 3 months (last time was today at 1:05 EST). Upon reviewing MEMORY.DMP file we noticed that possible cause of the crashes is rhelnet.sys (RedHat PV NIC Driver).
Server's Event Viewer has the following records right after the crash:
Windows Pv Drivers
Could this be a hardware issue? Would it help if we stop and start the instance? Or is this more likely that this is caused by the software running on the system?
Citrix Windows Pv Drivers License
[Update 10.01.2013]
Amazon Rep suggested to update RH drivers to Citrix PV drivers on our instance:
[Update 10.08.2013]
We performed a drivers upgrade on the cloned instance. Right after the upgrade we noticed the following errors in our Event viewer:
After digging a bit more I found this article suggesting to install the latest Citrix drivers. Unfortunately, this didn't help us at all and our cloned instance became unresponsive.
[Update 10.08.2013 2]
I recreated an instance and updated PV drivers again. After searching on Internet I found this article where Amazon Rep explains that:
I will keep my test system running for a while to see if there any issues with it.
2 Answers
Upgrading drivers as suggested by Amazon Rep fixed the isuse.
Error 1404 could not delete key software classes in california. In regards to Event ID 5001.. issue below is the reply I've got from Amazon:
I got same issue.
But AWS Supporter answer me as below, They don't sure issue from Citrix PV drives.