From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vadim Rozenfeld Subject: Re: RFH: Windos 7 64 + VirtIO stalls during installation / crashed with qcow2 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:02:03 +0200 Message-ID: <1297958523.2408.46.camel@localhost> References: <201102171144.34169.hahn@univention.de> <20110217114104.GA24753@redhat.com> <1297946734.2408.12.camel@localhost> <201102171627.47927.hahn@univention.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi , Gleb Natapov , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Philipp Hahn Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:24858 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753612Ab1BQQCP (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:02:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <201102171627.47927.hahn@univention.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 16:27 +0100, Philipp Hahn wrote: > Hello, > > Am Donnerstag 17 Februar 2011 13:45:34 schrieb Vadim Rozenfeld: > > On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 13:41 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: > > > Why is is linked to virtio? Does install on ide work? > > Yes, works without the VirtIO block driver using IDE. > > > > Does install work > > > without -no-kvm-irqchip (which had pretty serious problem till now)? > > > Adding -no-kvm-irqchip usually does not solve problems, but just > > > exchange one set of bugs to the other (and reduces performance > > > drastically). > > I'll try again without -no-kvm-irqchip, newer KVM and newer Kernel, but last > time I tested kvm-0.13 and Linux-2.6.37 with the same results, see > > > > Does it work on Win7-32? :) > > I also had problems with Windows XP 32Bit: Installation taking more than 20 > minutes with no noticeable progress, also VirtIO (probably an older version, > I don't have that instance any more) Could you please try "cache=writethrough" on virtio drive? Best regards, Vadim > > BYtE > Philipp