From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D1UVs-00006V-PT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:07:06 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1UVr-00005s-PC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:07:03 -0500 Received: from [129.104.30.34] (helo=mx1.polytechnique.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D1UG1-0000zc-Vd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:50:42 -0500 Message-ID: <42139642.9080306@bellard.org> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:51:46 +0100 From: Fabrice Bellard MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu and Longhorn References: <1108542177.16634.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1108542177.16634.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: esrever_otua@pythonhacker.is-a-geek.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Do you have the same performance problems without kqemu ? Fabrice. Darryl Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > > Just for giggles I ran an install of Longhorn build 4074 on CVS Qemu > today with kqemu. The install seemed to go well; the first stage didn't > recognise any mouse (probably more a Windows error than a Qemu one), but > was otherwise perfectly rendered (with what appeared to be a vesa video > mode) and usable with the keyboard. It proceeded reasonably quickly. > After the first reboot, the mouse was detected and worked, and it once > again proceed reasonably quickly (vesa video mode again), up until it > started detecting the hardware, at which point it stuck for around an > hour (it was actually doing work and processing the whole time). During > this all seemed well, and I even watched it detect the video OK and flip > from 640x480 to 800x600. Once it made it past the hardware detect and > booted into the actual Windows GUI, things got painful. Apparently even > though the installer knows how to use vesa video, Windows itself and the > standard VGA display driver it installed *don't* and so I was left with > a 640x480 16 colour display that ran *agonisingly* slowly, presumably as > all of the video calls were being emulated through calls to the Bochs > BIOS. It was glacial. Anyhow, I managed to soldier through a few > windows to the Device Manager, and from what I could see everything > except the network card had been detected OK (except of course that the > video was 'Standard VGA'). Presumably the network card just needs the > Win2000 RTL8029 driver like Server 2003 did. I tried to fix the video > so I'd be able to give Qemu + Longhorn a proper test, but after > (literally) hours to get through the driver update wizard and find that > my only choice was the standard VGA or something called a 'BARCO', I > gave up and wrote this short summary instead :) Presumably a more > patient man would be able to install the Cirrus Win2000 driver and > Longhorn on Qemu would be usable... > > Many regards, > -- > Darryl Dixon > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel