[Qemu-devel] qemu and AFS filesystem bugs?

[Qemu-devel] qemu and AFS filesystem bugs?

[Troy Benjegerdes]

I'm running qemu 0.7.2 on a Fedora Core 4 system (Opteron system), with
OpenAFS 1.4.0-rc3.

When I try to install either Windows 2000 or Red Hat WS, I am finding
that if the guest install ISO image is on an AFS filesystem, I get
strange errors during the install. On Windows, I would get 'file
corrupted' when copying files in the initial install.

Once the ISO image is in the AFS cache, it seems to work better. How
would I go about debugging something like this?

For what it's worth, other people have run VMware with ISO and disk
images on AFS with no problems.

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Troy Benjegerdes                'da hozer'                hozer@hozed.org  

Somone asked me why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/)
software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer:

"Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it
because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why
I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Shultz

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu and AFS filesystem bugs?

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Do u run with or without KQEMU?  if you're running without kqemu,
please retry with kqemu.

As for Windows 2000 guest installation, please use the win2000 hack
parameter (running the command "qemu" alone should show you the
parameter)

Thanks,
Hetz

On 9/15/05, Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> wrote:
> I'm running qemu 0.7.2 on a Fedora Core 4 system (Opteron system), with
> OpenAFS 1.4.0-rc3.
> 
> When I try to install either Windows 2000 or Red Hat WS, I am finding
> that if the guest install ISO image is on an AFS filesystem, I get
> strange errors during the install. On Windows, I would get 'file
> corrupted' when copying files in the initial install.
> 
> Once the ISO image is in the AFS cache, it seems to work better. How
> would I go about debugging something like this?
> 
> For what it's worth, other people have run VMware with ISO and disk
> images on AFS with no problems.
> 
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Troy Benjegerdes                'da hozer'                hozer@hozed.org
> 
> Somone asked me why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/)
> software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer:
> 
> "Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it
> because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why
> I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Shultz
> 
> 
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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu and AFS filesystem bugs?

[Troy Benjegerdes]

I have had similiar problems with and without kqemu. Initially, I
thought kqemu was causing the problem.

What exactly does the win2k install hack do anyway? Does it change the
disk emulation somehow?

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:00:56AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Do u run with or without KQEMU?  if you're running without kqemu,
> please retry with kqemu.
> 
> As for Windows 2000 guest installation, please use the win2000 hack
> parameter (running the command "qemu" alone should show you the
> parameter)
> 
> Thanks,
> Hetz
> 
> On 9/15/05, Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> wrote:
> > I'm running qemu 0.7.2 on a Fedora Core 4 system (Opteron system), with
> > OpenAFS 1.4.0-rc3.
> > 
> > When I try to install either Windows 2000 or Red Hat WS, I am finding
> > that if the guest install ISO image is on an AFS filesystem, I get
> > strange errors during the install. On Windows, I would get 'file
> > corrupted' when copying files in the initial install.
> > 
> > Once the ISO image is in the AFS cache, it seems to work better. How
> > would I go about debugging something like this?
> > 
> > For what it's worth, other people have run VMware with ISO and disk
> > images on AFS with no problems.

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu and AFS filesystem bugs?

[Mike Swanson]

On 9/15/05, Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> wrote:
> I have had similiar problems with and without kqemu. Initially, I
> thought kqemu was causing the problem.
> 
> What exactly does the win2k install hack do anyway? Does it change the
> disk emulation somehow?

There have been reports of problems with Windows 2000 thinking the
disk is full during installation. The hack modified the behaviour of
IDE emulation to workaround it for the time being. After Windows 2000
is installed, it's recommended that you do not use the option, as it
slows emulation speed down a lot, and Win2k is fine after installation
anyway.

-- 
Mike