[Partial Fix] Slow boot, VERY sluggish XP, Vista guests
-
- Posts: 17
- Joined: 25. Aug 2007, 06:01
- Location: California
- Contact:
[Partial Fix] Slow boot, VERY sluggish XP, Vista guests
Hi,
I decided to continue my issue as a new post since it is a separate issue. I am running a Gentoo host using both an XP and Vista guest. I have installed both on my ext3 partition, and have also tried them on ntfs with the same result. For both:
1) Boot up takes about 10-15 minutes
2) Once loaded, everything will work for a few seconds, then the VM will freeze for 5-10 minutes.
I started in safe mode in Vista, and it seemed to get hung up on crcdisk.sys for a while. Some posts said it may have something to do with IDE drivers, but I don't have any special ones as far as I know. On XP in Safe Mode, it hangs at mup.sys.
Both guests are using 1.5 GB ram and XP has a 10GB drive while Vista has a 20GB drive. Upping the RAM to 2GB has no effect.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I am ALMOST there !
Matt
I decided to continue my issue as a new post since it is a separate issue. I am running a Gentoo host using both an XP and Vista guest. I have installed both on my ext3 partition, and have also tried them on ntfs with the same result. For both:
1) Boot up takes about 10-15 minutes
2) Once loaded, everything will work for a few seconds, then the VM will freeze for 5-10 minutes.
I started in safe mode in Vista, and it seemed to get hung up on crcdisk.sys for a while. Some posts said it may have something to do with IDE drivers, but I don't have any special ones as far as I know. On XP in Safe Mode, it hangs at mup.sys.
Both guests are using 1.5 GB ram and XP has a 10GB drive while Vista has a 20GB drive. Upping the RAM to 2GB has no effect.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I am ALMOST there !
Matt
Last edited by stantheman286 on 29. Aug 2007, 08:55, edited 1 time in total.
-
- Posts: 17
- Joined: 25. Aug 2007, 06:01
- Location: California
- Contact:
-
- Posts: 17
- Joined: 25. Aug 2007, 06:01
- Location: California
- Contact:
-
- Posts: 17
- Joined: 25. Aug 2007, 06:01
- Location: California
- Contact:
-
- Posts: 17
- Joined: 25. Aug 2007, 06:01
- Location: California
- Contact:
Well, specifying the HAL has seemed to work (at least for XP guest) and now everything sets up and loads faster. It boots in like 20 seconds! I still need to try it with Vista. I'm not sure how I can specify a HAL for Vista, but I figured I'd try from Device Manager.
FIX (XP for now):
1) Start your Windows XP VM with Windows XP setup CD mounted and enter setup.
2) When you see the "Press F6...." to install drivers, hit F5 and F7 (I'm not sure which it is) to specify a HAL.
3) To fix mine, I set it to "Standard PC" instead of "Other"
4) Run XP setup again (I did a full reinstall; a repair install might work too)
I guess this probably has something to do with my system stalling at this message on boot:
Although it completes successfully, it takes almost a minute to get past this message.
I have work tomorrow, but I will try the same with Vista tomorrow.
Matt
FIX (XP for now):
1) Start your Windows XP VM with Windows XP setup CD mounted and enter setup.
2) When you see the "Press F6...." to install drivers, hit F5 and F7 (I'm not sure which it is) to specify a HAL.
3) To fix mine, I set it to "Standard PC" instead of "Other"
4) Run XP setup again (I did a full reinstall; a repair install might work too)
I guess this probably has something to do with my system stalling at this message on boot:
Code: Select all
Starting the Hardware Abstraction Layer Daemon...
I have work tomorrow, but I will try the same with Vista tomorrow.
Matt
-
- Posts: 17
- Joined: 25. Aug 2007, 06:01
- Location: California
- Contact:
-
- Posts: 17
- Joined: 25. Aug 2007, 06:01
- Location: California
- Contact:
-
- Posts: 17
- Joined: 25. Aug 2007, 06:01
- Location: California
- Contact:
-
- Posts: 17
- Joined: 25. Aug 2007, 06:01
- Location: California
- Contact:
Re:
I just had this issue today and I solved it with your guide! Thanks a ton!!stantheman286 wrote: ↑29. Aug 2007, 08:53 Well, specifying the HAL has seemed to work (at least for XP guest) and now everything sets up and loads faster. It boots in like 20 seconds! I still need to try it with Vista. I'm not sure how I can specify a HAL for Vista, but I figured I'd try from Device Manager.
FIX (XP for now):
1) Start your Windows XP VM with Windows XP setup CD mounted and enter setup.
2) When you see the "Press F6...." to install drivers, hit F5 and F7 (I'm not sure which it is) to specify a HAL.
3) To fix mine, I set it to "Standard PC" instead of "Other"
4) Run XP setup again (I did a full reinstall; a repair install might work too)
I guess this probably has something to do with my system stalling at this message on boot:
Although it completes successfully, it takes almost a minute to get past this message.Code: Select all
Starting the Hardware Abstraction Layer Daemon...
I have work tomorrow, but I will try the same with Vista tomorrow.
Matt
I made this Windows XP machine very recently on another computer. Today I loaded it back in a different computer and this sluggish issue started. I don't really know why. But, in any case, you helped me solve it. I'm very grateful