Re: [Qemu-devel] DMA in Windows 2000/XP/2003

2005-08-29 Thread Brad Campbell
Kazu wrote: This patch might help.. http://ebisa.hp.infoseek.co.jp/qemu/arcs/qemu-piix4-udma-20050514.zip Interesting.. after applying that patch both my win2k and winxp installs refused to boot. Winxp gets as far as the safe mode selection screen, select safe mode and it goes straight back

Re: [Qemu-devel] DMA in Windows 2000/XP/2003

2005-08-24 Thread Jan Marten Simons
Víctor Córcoles López wrote: Hello developers. My English is not good. I see that DMA in Hard Disks in guest OS Windows 2000/XP/2003 is not avalaible, it run in PIO mode. How can activate UDMA mode for hard disk ? I don't think you'd get any advantage of activating DMA inside the qemu

Re: [Qemu-devel] DMA in Windows 2000/XP/2003

2005-08-24 Thread André Braga
Fortunately, it does make a difference. PIO is polling-base, whereas DMA is, lacking a better term (excuse my English), transaction-based. Since no CPU arbitration is needed, quite a few optimizations can be done because of this, like real, large block transfers. And if you happen to search the

Re: [Qemu-devel] DMA in Windows 2000/XP/2003

2005-08-23 Thread Kazu
Hi, Tuesday, August 23, 2005 10:28 PM Víctor Córcoles López wrote: Subject: [Qemu-devel] DMA in Windows 2000/XP/2003 Hello developers. My English is not good. I see that DMA in Hard Disks in guest OS Windows 2000/XP/2003 is not avalaible, it run in PIO mode. How can activate UDMA mode