Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU_TMPDIR temp folder for KQEMU for Windows.

[Paul Brook]

> "When using KQEMU, QEMU will create a big hidden file containing the RAM of
> the virtual machine. For best performance, it is important that this file
> is kept in RAM and not on the hard disk. QEMU uses the `/dev/shm' directory
> to create this file because tmpfs is usually mounted on it (check with the
> shell command df). Otherwise `/tmp' is used as fallback. You can use the
> QEMU_TMPDIR shell variable to set a new directory for the QEMU RAM file. "
> (excerpt from his 'kqemu-doc.html' file).

Your mistake was assuming that this paragraph applies to the windows version 
of kqemu. It seems that it only applies to the linux (and maybe bsd) version.

Paul