From: Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>
To: John Lumby <johnlumby@hotmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] kqemu with "full" -kernel-kqemu and windows XP guest
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:56:20 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikuBHTBAeTSqFa2pidGW4sGh3dNZgG50ZE9Rgsk@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <COL116-W22BD509E9FAB2168FBB41BA3400@phx.gbl>
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 08:09, John Lumby <johnlumby@hotmail.com> wrote:
> FYI I have a developed a fairly small and (relative to
> kqemu itself) simple workaround for this problem, that allows you to get
> some benefit from -kernel-kqemu without resorting to other tricks such as
> disabling ACPI in the guest device manager. The workaround is to defer
> use of guest kernel mode acceleration until after the WinXP guest has
> completed the tricky part of booting (dynamic guest RAM allocation).
> Then, in effect, -kernel-kqemu is turned on and full acceleration is
> available.
>
> So booting is dismally slow as before but after that it runs quite well.
>
> Works for me for 32-bit WinXP guest and 32-bit linux and the following qemu
> releases:
> qemu-0.11.1 kqemu-1.4.0pre1
>
> I don't know about 64-bit, W7 or Vista as I have never tried them, but the
> same idea may work.
>
> If you would like it, you can send an email to my hotmail dot com id which
> is ....
>
> .... Johnlumby.
>
> (Anyone know if there is an upload area for contributors? If so I'll put
> it there - the two patch files are small)
Try http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/ in "Patches Repository" section :)
--
regards,
Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com
training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com
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