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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Erik Rull <erik.rull@rdsoftware.de>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kvm-77 Excessive Disk Access causes real time clock hang!
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:21:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F80E13.2070806@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49F5E936.1050706@rdsoftware.de>

Erik Rull wrote:
> Hi Avi,
>
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> interface: virtio
>> cache: none
>> format: raw, using a partition or logical volume
>>
>> What are you using?
>
> uhm, I'm not sure, I call qemu with:
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 -usb -hda /dev/hda2 -m 1536 -net 
> nic,macaddr=$MACADDR -net tap,script=/etc/qemu-ifup -no-acpi -monitor 
> stdio -usbdevice tablet -boot c
>
> The /dev/hda2 is NTFS formatted - does this make sense, because you 
> wrote sth. with raw...
> Maybe another file system would be faster? Or is it ignored by the 
> guest system?

The file system is the guest's business.  Instead of '-hda /dev/hda2', try

  -drive file=/dev/hda2,cache=none


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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-29  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-24 15:29 kvm-77 Excessive Disk Access causes real time clock hang! Erik Rull
2009-04-24 23:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-04-26 10:46 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-26 23:12   ` Erik Rull
2009-04-27  6:27     ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-27 17:19       ` Erik Rull
2009-04-29  8:21         ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-05-04 19:30           ` Erik Rull
2009-05-04 19:30           ` Erik Rull

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