Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu the right way.

2019-01-04 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 05:48:50PM -0500, liebre...@grossmann-venter.com wrote: > I have been using Qemu in the past about 8 years ago or so to run legacy > windows software. > > I installed the latest qemu and noticed a lot changed and cant find > conclusive answers online. > > I am writing this

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu the right way -[Subthread Cores]

2018-12-27 Thread liebrecht
For the record I have no crashes with -cpu host It works perfectly. Although I can only see 2 cpus in windows with 4 showing up in devicemanager. The first link you sent was actually the first thing I tried and I was already aware of that one. It made no difference whatsoever. My bios is late

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu the right way.

2018-12-27 Thread liebrecht
I resolved it by removing the nic driver detected by windows and rebooted. It seems llike the first thing to do after the startup string is complete is to remove all drivers and then let windows find them again according to what is available from the startup string switches. The nic problem i

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu the right way -[Subthread Cores]

2018-12-27 Thread Andrew Randrianasulu
> Since I do not have networking sorted out yet I cannot update win7 pro, and > it might be the updates which are needed for allowing more than two cpus. hm, brief search on my side resulted in this tip: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/windows-7-professional

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu the right way -[Subthread Cores]

2018-12-26 Thread liebrecht
Thanks a million Andrew -enable-kvm switch really solved the erratic on of switching off the mouse and sound. All I get now are small pips and pops I will have to chase sown. Sounds like buffer overruns of some sort due to too small buffers on the linux receiving end. Dont know how to adjust th

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu the right way.

2018-12-26 Thread liebrecht
Sound is rickety but at least I can see that it is possible as in my previous post which is already way better than virtualbox. Turning to networking; I can configure windows tcp/ip very well, but for some reason qemu fails at a network connection. Windows report the qemu provided network

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu the right way.

2018-12-26 Thread liebrecht
On 2018-12-26 02:14, Thomas Huth wrote: 2) I need to at least have sound working from applications in the guest with pulseaudio on the Debian host. Is it possible ? Should be possible. Run the configure script before compiling with --audio-drv-list=pa and then make sure to give a soundc

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu the right way.

2018-12-26 Thread liebrecht
Try to run QEMU with "-smp 4". Thomas thank you for your reply. I will try each of your suggestions in turn. -smp 4 did help and this time i could configure 2 cpus in windows. Now for a very important question. If hardware virtualization was not switched on in bios will qemu refuse to creat

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu the right way.

2018-12-26 Thread liebrecht
I now move on to sound. I could get sound working as you instructed. I chose to load all sound cards and see if I can find one that works. Sound does work but it ios very intermittent, seemingly the same as what happens to the mouse as if there is a timeshare going on. Any idea what that ca

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu the right way.

2018-12-26 Thread liebrecht
Try to run QEMU with "-smp 4". Thomas thank you for your reply. I will try each of your suggestions in turn. -smp 4 did help and this time i could configure 2 cpus in windows. Now for a very important question. If hardware virtualization was not switched on in bios will qemu refuse to cr

Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu the right way.

2018-12-25 Thread Thomas Huth
On 2018-12-25 23:46, liebre...@grossmann-venter.com wrote: > I have been using Qemu in the past about 8 years ago or so to run legacy > windows software. > > I installed the latest qemu and noticed a lot changed and cant find > conclusive answers online. > > I am writing this post to find what is

[Qemu-devel] Qemu the right way.

2018-12-25 Thread liebrecht
I have been using Qemu in the past about 8 years ago or so to run legacy windows software. I installed the latest qemu and noticed a lot changed and cant find conclusive answers online. I am writing this post to find what is the right way to start to set up qemu with a windows 7 pro guest. I

[Qemu-devel] Qemu the right way.

2018-12-25 Thread liebrecht
I have been using Qemu in the past about 8 years ago or so to run legacy windows software. I installed the latest qemu and noticed a lot changed and cant find conclusive answers online. I am writing this post to find what is the right way to start to set up qemu with a windows 7 pro guest. I