Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu and AFS filesystem bugs?

[Troy Benjegerdes]

I have had similiar problems with and without kqemu. Initially, I
thought kqemu was causing the problem.

What exactly does the win2k install hack do anyway? Does it change the
disk emulation somehow?

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:00:56AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Do u run with or without KQEMU?  if you're running without kqemu,
> please retry with kqemu.
> 
> As for Windows 2000 guest installation, please use the win2000 hack
> parameter (running the command "qemu" alone should show you the
> parameter)
> 
> Thanks,
> Hetz
> 
> On 9/15/05, Troy Benjegerdes <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'm running qemu 0.7.2 on a Fedora Core 4 system (Opteron system), with
> > OpenAFS 1.4.0-rc3.
> > 
> > When I try to install either Windows 2000 or Red Hat WS, I am finding
> > that if the guest install ISO image is on an AFS filesystem, I get
> > strange errors during the install. On Windows, I would get 'file
> > corrupted' when copying files in the initial install.
> > 
> > Once the ISO image is in the AFS cache, it seems to work better. How
> > would I go about debugging something like this?
> > 
> > For what it's worth, other people have run VMware with ISO and disk
> > images on AFS with no problems.