[OpenAFS-devel] strange problems with qemu and 1.4.0-rc3?

[Derek Atkins]

Sounds like qemu either doesn't like blocking, or is putting itself into
non-blocking mode but not dealing when the filesystem can't provide data as
fast as it wants.   So... sounds like a qemu problem to be.

-derek

Quoting Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org>:

> I've had a number of strange problems trying to run qemu (open-source
> vmware-like tool), and installing a guest OS from an AFS mounted ISO
> image.
>
> It seems like once the entire ISO image file is in cache, it generally
> works fine, but when runing for the first time, the install will fail in
> strange ways. When I was trying this with windows, I figured it was just
> windows being stupid. But I get similiar kinds of bogus behavior with
> the Red Hat installer.
>
> How would I go about debugging this?
>
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