Re: [Qemu-devel] Problems with win2000 - qemu CVS version

[Lonnie Mendez]

On Monday 04 July 2005 22:01, Emmanuel Nicolas Millan wrote:
> Hi everyone, 
> 
> I'm having problems installing win2000 in a linux host, the problem is
> already known, the disk fills up really quickly.
> First I try qemu 0.7.0 and apply the patch win2k-disk-full-fix... but
> it didn't work..
> I download the cvs version 0.7.1 ( - Windows 2000 install disk full
> hack - original idea from VladimirN. Oleynik - extracted FROM THE
> ChangeLog) and I'm still having the same problem.....
> I try this two configurations with and without kqemu.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea of where I'm making a mistake??? or this is a
> still known problem and the patch is not working??
> 
> Thanks (Sorry for my English)
> 

        Hello.  Are you running qemu with -win2k-hack during win2k install?  
qemu 
prints this in help:

-win2k-hack     use it when installing Windows 2000 to avoid a disk full bug

  After running that argument with a successful install, you shouldn't need to 
use it again.