On 09/26/2013 10:10 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
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?
Haven't heard of that myself. Please file a bug in bugzilla.redhat.com Fedora->virtio-win, and basically report what you posted here, along with virtio driver versions, spice tools link, etc.
Thanks, Cole