[fedora-virt] WinXP & Slow Network Startup (BallonService)

[Cole Robinson]

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