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. _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
