Re: [Qemu-devel] QEmu freezes Linux while installing win98 or win2000

[David Sibai <david.sibai@free.fr>]

Hi,
The last time I had bizarre problems (freezes, crashes, which finally killed 
my system by corrupting the fs) was because my ram was faulty. Since the 
faulty bits were in the >200Mb area, the bugs did not show up until I ran 
memory-hungry processes. In your case Qemu maybe with -m anawfullotofmemory? 
I realized it was my ram when I tried to build gentoo and got various 
segfaults during the build, and memtest86 confirmed this.


David

On Thursday 06 May 2004 11:51, Jorge wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> first, thank you for your efforts in developing this promising program.
>
> Mi problem is as follows:
>
> When I try to install win98 or win2000 (the only legal versions I have),
> QEmu performs well in text mode, but when it switches to graphics mode,
> sooner or later the whole Linux box will freeze, I'll have to reboot the
> machine in order to use it.
>
> I've tried with different kernels, the GPL'd video driver for my card
> (NVIDIA), but the result is always the same, it freezes. It doesn't freezes
> at the same position (of the win install procedure), sometimes it does it
> after 5 minutes, others after 30 minutes.
>
> I've tried a QEmu compiled from source and the downloadable i386 binary,
> both do the same.
>
> What could it be? That a program that is run from a "normal" user freezes
> the whole linux system?
>
> My specs:
> QEmu 0.5.4
> Atlhon 1.7
> 512 Mbytes RAM
> 90 GBytes HD
> Mandrake Community 10
> NVidia GForce4 with NVidia drivers
> KDE 3.2
> Kernel 2.4.22-10mdk (Mandrake patched with supermount and other stuff)
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Jorge Windmeisser Oliver
>
>
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