On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 06:03:53PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: > Leonardo E. Reiter wrote: > >Attached is a patch which greatly speeds up disk writes when using > >-win2k-hack to install Windows 2000. It only delays every 16th > >interrupt, which after rigorous testing is still enough to overcome the > >"Windows 2000 disk full" bug. If you are really adventurous you can try > >it every 32nd time, but for me that caused problems during some > >installations, so I thought it was too aggressive. > > > >This patch also adds -win2k-hack functionality to DMA writes, since DMA > >now works in the latest CVS QEMU. > > > > Using todays CVS, and kqemu in user mode only I tried to install Win2k-SP4 > 25 times all with disk full errors until I applied this patch. > It would appear the installer will use DMA mode if it's available and > therefore the existing win2k-hack does not work. > > Using this patch 5 out of 5 installs worked perfectly. > > Thanks Leo :) > > Regards, > Brad
with current CVS, I am unable to install win2k.. This patch appears to be needed for win2k installs to work. With this patch, I am able to install w2k with user-kqemu. _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
