Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/3] qcow2 metadata cache

2011-01-28 Thread TeLeMan
Host: Win7 Guest: WinXP Reproduce: qemu-img create -f qcow2 winxp.qcow2 80G qemu -L pc-bios -m 256 -hda winxp.qcow2 -cdrom WXPVOL_EN.iso -boot d Error: An unexpected error (3073) occurred at line 5137 in d:\xp\client\base\boot\setup\setup.c I tried adding "-snapshot" into the command line, it wo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/3] qcow2 metadata cache

2011-01-27 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 27.01.2011 08:52, schrieb TeLeMan: > These patches break booting Windows. Can you be a bit more specific? It certainly doesn't break my Windows images. Just to be sure that I didn't miss a last-minute regression, I just installed another Win 7 VM and it works just fine. Which Windows version d

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/3] qcow2 metadata cache

2011-01-26 Thread TeLeMan
These patches break booting Windows.

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/3] qcow2 metadata cache

2011-01-24 Thread Kevin Wolf
block-queue turned out to be too big effort to be useful for quickly fixing the performance problems that qcow2 got since we introduced the metadata flushes. While I still think the idea is right, it needs more time and qcow2 doesn't have more time. Let's come back to block-queue later when the mos