From: Alex Hermann <alex-lists@waxy.kabel.utwente.nl>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: -win2k-hack needed to do Windows Update?
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:41:13 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603282041.07437.alex-lists@waxy.kabel.utwente.nl> (raw)
Andrew Barr wrote:
> 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).
No solution, but just a 'me too' to let you know you're not alone in this. I
have exactly the same issue with same configuration except the kernel,
which is at version 2.6.15.6.
Alex.
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