Incredible slow remote boot with WinXPe + Framework 2.0

[Augusto Alvarez]

I've prepared an WinXPe image adding the Framework 2.0 component (the
complete image size is 430mb), but when I boot that image from a PXE client
it starts to boot correctly and downloads the image completely (with all the
bars completed), but the window hangs there, its been there for over an hour
now and nothing happens.

If I look on the "CPU Usage" of the client virtual machine it stays on 99%
and 100%. The client machine is configured with 512mb memory.

Is this normal? Is there any way that I can improve that booting
performance?

Im using virtual machines, server and client, connected by a virtual
network. (When I configured a smaller WinXPe image, it booted correctly from
PXE)

Cheers!

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

You need twice (2x) the amount of RAM in the client system compaired to the
XPe image you are downloading. Rember the image is running in a RAM disk.
430MB, which in 512MB leaves very little RAM for program or OS processes.
Virtual machine can compound the issue since they take up resources from teh
host OS. I am surprised it even worked. You should increase the RAM to 1GB
in the client for better results, and you should have lots of RAM in host
system.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit