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by stx8
2024-12-03 21:06
Forum: Testing And Unstable
Topic: [Testing - Trixie] QEMU/KVM: Windows10 guest freezes after a few minutes
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Re: [Testing - Trixie] QEMU/KVM: Windows10 guest freezes after a few minutes


A couple of things:

Updating the Windows virtio drivers only seemingly fixed the issue: the next time I booted the VM using the QXL video driver, it started freezing again.

Using the updated QEMU Debian package, the only way to avoid the freezing is to use an alternate video driver; I used Virtio and it works well enough.

I worked with the Debian maintainer to find the commit where the freezing started. Reverting that change, rebuilding qemu-system-x86_64, and pointing the VM to that ...