Setting up KVM?

Stanczak Group justin at stanczakgroup.com
Thu Aug 2 03:34:56 UTC 2007


I did that with the Standard PC, but there's several drivers it can't 
find. Where did you get those?

John Pierce wrote:
> On 8/1/07, Stanczak Group <justin at stanczakgroup.com> wrote:
>   
>> I do get this error message when starting qemu.
>>
>> Could not configure '/dev/rtc' to have a 1024 Hz timer. This is not a fatal
>> error, but for better emulation accuracy either use a 2.6 host Linux
>> kernel or
>> type 'echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq' as root.
>>
>>     
> In the 2.6.22 kernel they moved rtc to hpet, and I still get the same
> error becuase I think that they hardwired the directory location
> inside of the qemu build.  I do not worry about it though.
>
> Once you get the machine running and can log into windows goto
> mycomputer and right click choose properties and go to the hardware
> tab.  Choose device manager and right click computer and choose
> properties.  Change the type from acpi to standard pc then reboot the
> machine.  You should see a marked improvement in performance.  Has
> something to do with an acpi interrupt that windows xp uses and cause
> much traffic in the kernel.
>
> Hope this helps some.
>   

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