parkanoid

no one noticed similar behavior?

i just use to the unarid device passthrough for mouse/keyboard, and a 6950hd for gpu passthrough, thing is its all working fine, boot is super fast until i hit the high memory numbers, ill do some more testing with vnc, and different core numbers to see what makes a difference eidt: so i did abunch of test with different vcpu/memory numbers, and it seems both raising vcpus and memory triggers the slower boots, but memory more so than cores, gpu/usb didnt seem to effect it at all, neither did machine, and ive tried it with OMVF aswell earlier and i think i had similar boot times(will have to restest this). All in all its very usable just slightly annoying, performance seems really good after the boot hiccup xml of what i was planning to use <domain type='kvm' id='9'> <name>Client Windows 8.1</name> <uuid>1cb15b09-ccfb-7688-da03-f2a6271e853f</uuid> <metadata> <vmtemplate xmlns="unraid" name="Windows 8.x" icon="windows.png" os="windows"/> </metadata> <memory unit='KiB'>33554432</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>33554432</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <nosharepages/> <locked/> </memoryBacking> <vcpu placement='static'>20</vcpu> <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='2'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='3'/> <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='4'/> <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='5'/> <vcpupin vcpu='4' cpuset='6'/> <vcpupin vcpu='5' cpuset='7'/> <vcpupin vcpu='6' cpuset='8'/> <vcpupin vcpu='7' cpuset='9'/> <vcpupin vcpu='8' cpuset='10'/> <vcpupin vcpu='9' cpuset='11'/> <vcpupin vcpu='10' cpuset='14'/> <vcpupin vcpu='11' cpuset='15'/> <vcpupin vcpu='12' cpuset='16'/> <vcpupin vcpu='13' cpuset='17'/> <vcpupin vcpu='14' cpuset='18'/> <vcpupin vcpu='15' cpuset='19'/> <vcpupin vcpu='16' cpuset='20'/> <vcpupin vcpu='17' cpuset='21'/> <vcpupin vcpu='18' cpuset='22'/> <vcpupin vcpu='19' cpuset='23'/> </cputune> <resource> <partition>/machine</partition> </resource> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-2.5'>hvm</type> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <hyperv> <relaxed state='on'/> <vapic state='on'/> <spinlocks state='on' retries='8191'/> <vendor id='none'/> </hyperv> </features> <cpu mode='host-passthrough'> <topology sockets='1' cores='10' threads='2'/> </cpu> <clock offset='localtime'> <timer name='hypervclock' present='yes'/> <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/local/sbin/qemu</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='unsafe'/> <source file='/mnt/user/Vidisks/Client Windows 8.1/vdisk1.img'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hdc' bus='virtio'/> <boot order='1'/> <alias name='virtio-disk2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </disk> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='nec-xhci'> <alias name='usb'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='sata' index='0'> <alias name='ide'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1f' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pcie-root'> <alias name='pcie.0'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='1' model='dmi-to-pci-bridge'> <model name='i82801b11-bridge'/> <alias name='pci.1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1e' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='2' model='pci-bridge'> <model name='pci-bridge'/> <target chassisNr='2'/> <alias name='pci.2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'> <alias name='virtio-serial0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:c4:d3:81'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <target dev='vnet0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <alias name='net0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <source path='/dev/pts/0'/> <target port='0'/> <alias name='serial0'/> </serial> <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/0'> <source path='/dev/pts/0'/> <target type='serial' port='0'/> <alias name='serial0'/> </console> <channel type='unix'> <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/domain-Client Windows 8.1/org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0' state='disconnected'/> <alias name='channel0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes' xvga='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev0'/> <rom bar='on' file='/mnt/user/ISOs/asus6950.rom'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1b' function='0x0'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='no'> <source> <vendor id='0x046d'/> <product id='0xc051'/> <address bus='3' device='2'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev2'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='no'> <source> <vendor id='0x04b4'/> <product id='0x0101'/> <address bus='3' device='3'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev3'/> </hostdev> <memballoon model='virtio'> <alias name='balloon0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> </domain>

Any idea whats causing this or any workarounds? so far ive tried seabios/ovmf, windows 7 and 8, stable and newest beta, but as soon as i up the memory to 32gb+ the windows boot always takes like 2-5minutes instead of 10-20sek normally with 8gb, looking at the dashboard the cpu is working 100% during the boot aswell until its in windows, then its back to normal and everything works fine, very odd. seems like the more memory i allocate the slower the boot is, it seemingly locks up during the windows logo thingy during boot. system: 12core 2678v3 xeon 64gb ddr4 unraid 6.2beta