[fedora-virt] WinXP & Slow Network Startup (BallonService)
Hi everyone,
I'm running Fedora 19 (with Preview Repo) and just installed Windows XP
(media already had SP3) and applied all 100+ updates (no additional 3rd
party software installed) with VirtIO (on Net & SCSI controller). I'm
running the latest virtio drivers.
I proceeded to install the SPICE Agent Tools and rebooted the VM and now
I can copy/paste from guest to host (very cool). However, I noticed
that the network takes about 1.5 minutes to start. I have the "show
icon when connected option" and literally takes 1.5 minutes. I
searched the mailing list's archive and there was a similar post but
apparently the situation there was related to the .NET framework (which
I don't have installed).
After some trial & error I finally pinpointed the problem to the
"BallonService" installed by the SPICE tools. If I set the service to
"disabled" and reboot the VM the network starts right away.
Has anyone bumped into this?
Regards,
Jorge