[Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:06:43 -0000 (UTC)] Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu> wrote: > I have two jessie systems with kvm-qemu virtualized Windows7 guest > OSs. These are mostly working well (including guest inter-networking) > to the extent that I use Windows, with one glaring exception: when I > try to do a Windows Update - the process never finds anything to do, > nor does it ever terminate. Ordinary Windows systems (belonging to > other users) are finding lots of updates and fairly quickly. [...] > Has anyone else seen this? And better yet, found a solution? > DuckDuckGo has not helped so far... How long ago was the last successful update? Was there ever one? I have recently read [1] that upon reinstalling Windows 7 from scratch Windows Update often ``takes hours'' (like say 12 hours or such) until it has finally/successfully scanned for updates. The problem you describe sounds very similar. IIRC it can be solved by installing a certain Windows KB... manually and then scanning for updates another time. [1] http://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2016-5-Windows-7-Windows-Update-Beine-machen-3100633.html ...although the link does not contain a description of the solution, it has further links (below ``WEITERFÜHRENDE LINKS'') where the correct update to manually install is likely to be linked. HTH Linux-Fan -- http://masysma.lima-city.de/
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