Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] -win2k-hack performance+DMA support

2006-04-19 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 06:03:53PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: > Leonardo E. Reiter wrote: > >Attached is a patch which greatly speeds up disk writes when using > >-win2k-hack to install Windows 2000. It only delays every 16th > >interrupt, which after rigorous testing is still enough to overcom

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] -win2k-hack performance+DMA support

2006-02-09 Thread Leonardo E. Reiter
No problem... hopefully Fabrice will apply this patch to CVS soon. We've been testing/deploying this mechanism (every 16th interrupt) with Win4Lin Pro for a long time now with no disk full problems, so I can vouch that it's reliable (and quite fast compared to delaying on *every* interrupt). A

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] -win2k-hack performance+DMA support

2006-02-09 Thread Brad Campbell
Leonardo E. Reiter wrote: Attached is a patch which greatly speeds up disk writes when using -win2k-hack to install Windows 2000. It only delays every 16th interrupt, which after rigorous testing is still enough to overcome the "Windows 2000 disk full" bug. If you are really adventurous you c

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] -win2k-hack performance+DMA support

2006-02-02 Thread Leonardo E. Reiter
Attached is a patch which greatly speeds up disk writes when using -win2k-hack to install Windows 2000. It only delays every 16th interrupt, which after rigorous testing is still enough to overcome the "Windows 2000 disk full" bug. If you are really adventurous you can try it every 32nd time,