From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU_TMPDIR temp folder for KQEMU for Windows.
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:02:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508301502.15003.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050830134218.17388.qmail@web50508.mail.yahoo.com>
> "When using KQEMU, QEMU will create a big hidden file containing the RAM of
> the virtual machine. For best performance, it is important that this file
> is kept in RAM and not on the hard disk. QEMU uses the `/dev/shm' directory
> to create this file because tmpfs is usually mounted on it (check with the
> shell command df). Otherwise `/tmp' is used as fallback. You can use the
> QEMU_TMPDIR shell variable to set a new directory for the QEMU RAM file. "
> (excerpt from his 'kqemu-doc.html' file).
Your mistake was assuming that this paragraph applies to the windows version
of kqemu. It seems that it only applies to the linux (and maybe bsd) version.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-30 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-29 16:56 [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu 0.7.1 + dkms-qvm86-0.7.1 (mandriva 2005 / cooker) produces version mismatch Hannes Fuchs
2005-08-29 18:05 ` [Qemu-devel] QEMU_TMPDIR temp folder for KQEMU for Windows Francois Rioux
2005-08-29 18:53 ` John R. Hogerhuis
2005-08-29 21:59 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-08-30 7:29 ` [Qemu-devel] qemu optimization John R. Hogerhuis
2005-08-30 11:17 ` Paul Brook
2005-08-30 18:05 ` John R. Hogerhuis
2005-08-30 18:30 ` Paul Brook
2005-08-29 22:01 ` [Qemu-devel] QEMU_TMPDIR temp folder for KQEMU for Windows Jim C. Brown
2005-08-30 3:45 ` Francois Rioux
2005-08-30 9:08 ` Filip Navara
2005-08-30 13:42 ` Francois Rioux
2005-08-30 14:02 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2005-09-03 13:51 ` ace
2005-09-03 17:35 ` Doctor Bill
2005-09-03 14:48 ` Filip Navara
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