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

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:49:14PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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.

Is there any good way to track down what's misbehaving? I'm sure the
qemu people will blame the filesystem..

> 
> -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?