[Qemu-devel] Re: Breakage with local APIC routing

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 08/26/2009 10:31 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Very strange problem: I managed to get past this "Setup is starting
> Windows", but only when using KVM mode (both -enable-kvm from upstream
> as well as w/ or w/o -no-kvm-irqchip from qemu-kvm). It still takes ages
> (several minutes), but it works. The version before the commit you
> pointed out does not take so much time for this step.
>
> So we may see two issues here: some x86 emulation problem in TCG mode
> plus some IRQ delivery incorrectness.
>
> Did anyone here recently try to install XP-64 (desktop or server) into
> qemu or qemu-kvm recently?

I install XP x64 regularly as part of kvm-autotest.  I don't recall any 
special slowness (well there was b4a2f5e723 hitting the text-mode 
installer, but it only affects smp).

> Can you confirm long delays or hangs during
> "Setup is starting Windows" (early text-mode installer)?
>    

 From the very early days of kvm, that screen was pretty hard to get past.

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