From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EA6nw-0000z2-Hr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:09:36 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EA6nr-0000x0-Om for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:09:32 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EA6nr-0000w9-Gk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:09:31 -0400 Received: from [65.74.133.11] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1EA6jH-0005zm-RJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:04:48 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU_TMPDIR temp folder for KQEMU for Windows. Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:02:14 +0100 References: <20050830134218.17388.qmail@web50508.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050830134218.17388.qmail@web50508.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508301502.15003.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > "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