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Subject: Re: [9fans] Stuck at partdisk
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Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> 2009/4/5 ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>:
>> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Devon H. O'Dell <devon.odell@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2009/4/5 Devon H. O'Dell <devon.odell@gmail.com>:
>>>> Ideas?
>>> Works fine if I turn off DMA.
>> no need to have DMA on on qemu anyway, so you have a workaround.
>
> Except that it's now looking to take about 5 hours to install on my 3
> core AMD64 box with 8GB RAM :)

You can give KVM a whirl, I have had no problems with DMA using it on a
4x4 Barcelona or an AMD64 X2.  Should notice a performance increase from
using AMD svm anyways.