On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 16:27 +0100, Philipp Hahn wrote: > Hello, > > Am Donnerstag 17 Februar 2011 13:45:34 schrieb Vadim Rozenfeld: > > On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 13:41 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: > > > Why is is linked to virtio? Does install on ide work? > > Yes, works without the VirtIO block driver using IDE. > > > > Does install work > > > without -no-kvm-irqchip (which had pretty serious problem till now)? > > > Adding -no-kvm-irqchip usually does not solve problems, but just > > > exchange one set of bugs to the other (and reduces performance > > > drastically). > > I'll try again without -no-kvm-irqchip, newer KVM and newer Kernel, but last > time I tested kvm-0.13 and Linux-2.6.37 with the same results, see > <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/66069> > > > Does it work on Win7-32? :) > > I also had problems with Windows XP 32Bit: Installation taking more than 20 > minutes with no noticeable progress, also VirtIO (probably an older version, > I don't have that instance any more) Could you please try "cache=writethrough" on virtio drive? Best regards, Vadim > > BYtE > Philipp -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html