From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FNgnd-00012l-QI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:45:41 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FNgnb-000129-59 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:45:40 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FNgna-000126-7e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:45:38 -0500 Received: from [65.24.5.136] (helo=ms-smtp-02-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FNgoy-0007KB-7E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:47:04 -0500 Received: from frink.oakcourt.local (cpe-65-24-47-209.columbus.res.rr.com [65.24.47.209]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2R1jXJu000736 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:45:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from andrew by frink.oakcourt.local with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FNgoM-0001kV-3b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:46:26 -0500 From: Andrew Barr Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:46:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603262046.25950.andrew.james.barr@gmail.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] -win2k-hack needed to do Windows Update? 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 Hi again. I'm still working on my Windows 2000 SP4 VM, and I've discovered that running Windows Update (Internet Explorer 6) causes behavior similar to the "disk full" bug encountered during Windows 2000 setup. When it gets to the part where it's looking for updates (the green scrolling bar), there is excessive disk activity and the VM slows down significantly. This is both with and without -kernel-kqemu. I've monitored the size of the disk image while the VM thrases away, and it steadily gets larger. I've not let it completely fill up, but I've seen it add 2 gigabytes to the disk size in the space of fifteen minutes. Just for kicks, I added -win2k-hack to my bootup options and tried Windows Update. It's running now--so far so good but the disk is working a bit much for my taste. At least it is moving forward, albeit a bit slowly. I just thought I'd mention this here because I've not seen this behavior documented anywhere else. In case you didn't read my earlier message, I'm running Win2K SP4 on QEMU CVS with -kernel-kqemu and kqemu 1.3.0pre3. Host is Linux 2.6.16 (Debian sid). -- Andrew Barr | 1024D/AD9AE76A andrew.james.barr@gmail.com | http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/~andrew And now for something completely different.