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Re: [Qemu-devel] -win2k-hack needed to do Windows Update?
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Brad Campbell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] -win2k-hack needed to do Windows Update? |
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Sun, 09 Apr 2006 01:05:45 +0400 |
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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.
I've reproduced this with a vanilla 2kSP4 install (IE 5) and all patches up to the latest and
greatest. I've tried with Leo's win2k-hack patch that only delays every 16th (iirc) irq and that
seems to work also, but perhaps it was not as reliable (I've done so many tests my memory may not be
that flash).
Anyway. -win2k-hack gets windows update working on 2k here also.
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