Re: RFH: Windos 7 64 + VirtIO stalls during installation / crashed with qcow2

Vadim Rozenfeld
2011-02-17T16:02:15Z

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
> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/66069>
>
> > 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