Do you have the same performance problems without kqemu ?
Fabrice.
Darryl Dixon wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just for giggles I ran an install of Longhorn build 4074 on CVS Qemu
> today with kqemu. The install seemed to go well; the first stage didn't
> recognise any mouse (probably more a Windows error than a Qemu one), but
> was otherwise perfectly rendered (with what appeared to be a vesa video
> mode) and usable with the keyboard. It proceeded reasonably quickly.
> After the first reboot, the mouse was detected and worked, and it once
> again proceed reasonably quickly (vesa video mode again), up until it
> started detecting the hardware, at which point it stuck for around an
> hour (it was actually doing work and processing the whole time). During
> this all seemed well, and I even watched it detect the video OK and flip
> from 640x480 to 800x600. Once it made it past the hardware detect and
> booted into the actual Windows GUI, things got painful. Apparently even
> though the installer knows how to use vesa video, Windows itself and the
> standard VGA display driver it installed *don't* and so I was left with
> a 640x480 16 colour display that ran *agonisingly* slowly, presumably as
> all of the video calls were being emulated through calls to the Bochs
> BIOS. It was glacial. Anyhow, I managed to soldier through a few
> windows to the Device Manager, and from what I could see everything
> except the network card had been detected OK (except of course that the
> video was 'Standard VGA'). Presumably the network card just needs the
> Win2000 RTL8029 driver like Server 2003 did. I tried to fix the video
> so I'd be able to give Qemu + Longhorn a proper test, but after
> (literally) hours to get through the driver update wizard and find that
> my only choice was the standard VGA or something called a 'BARCO', I
> gave up and wrote this short summary instead :) Presumably a more
> patient man would be able to install the Cirrus Win2000 driver and
> Longhorn on Qemu would be usable...
>
> Many regards,
> --
> Darryl Dixon <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>>
>
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