From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FOJ7w-0007t5-SP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:41:12 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FOJ7v-0007sZ-Tc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:41:12 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FOJ7v-0007sQ-LU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:41:11 -0500 Received: from [130.89.195.211] (helo=waxy.kabel.utwente.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FOJ9h-00084w-PY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:43:02 -0500 Received: from waxy.waxynet ([172.16.1.1] helo=waxy) by waxy.kabel.utwente.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FOJ7s-0005ok-1K for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:41:08 +0200 From: Alex Hermann MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603282041.07437.alex-lists@waxy.kabel.utwente.nl> Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: -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: , Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:41:13 -0000 To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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.