On 08/16/2012 01:47 PM, Richard Davies wrote: > Hi, > > We run a cloud hosting provider using qemu-kvm 1.1, and are keen to find a > contractor to track down and fix problems we have with large memory Windows > guests booting very slowly - they can take several hours. > > We previously reported these problems in July (copied below) and they are > still present with Linux kernel 3.5.1 and qemu-kvm 1.1.1. > > This is a serious issue for us which is causing significant pain to our > larger Windows VM customers when their servers are offline for many hours > during boot. > > If anyone knowledgeable in the area would be interested in being paid to > work on this, or if you know someone who might be, I would be delighted to > hear from you. >
I happen to be gainfully employed but maybe I can help. Can you collect a trace during the slow boot period and post in somewhere? See http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Tracing for instructions. 4G/8way is not a particularly large guest. What is the host configuration (memory, core count)? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
