On Mon, October 27, 2014 03:57, Patrick Bervoets wrote:
Trust me. I am always in need of help.
They are already virtio.
At the moment all I am looking for is how to use the CentOS tools to mount a guest system. So I think that probably falls in the scope of this list. If (when) I get into trouble on the Win side of things then I will take you up on your kind offer.
Per your suggestion I used virt-manager to open the guest and added a hardware device. I selected the option "Select managed or other existing storage", browsed for the virtio-win.iso and set the Device type to IDE CDROM with storage type 'raw'. I started the guest and the new CDROM shows in the hardware list.
I will see how it goes from there.
Thanks again,
On Mon, October 27, 2014 09:08, James B. Byrne wrote:
On Mon, October 27, 2014 03:57, Patrick Bervoets wrote:
No, I was looking at something else. The HDD are IDE. I will check into moving those to virtio as well.
OK. We are golden with respect to getting the network reactivated on the Windows guest. One down, infinity to go. Thanks for the help.
There was one wrinkle in all this. I had to log on to the guest as a local administrator to configure the nic driver. Windows explorer (not IE) reported a server error when I logged in as the domain admin and tried to open the computer management window.
Explorer.exe server execution failed.
And in consequence I could do absolutely nothing until I logged in with a local user profile.
This is apparently due to the fact that Win7 handles roaming user profiles somewhat differently than WinXp. Evidently, if you do not have a network connection to a remote user profile then the OS chokes. Just a heads up for anyone else in this situation.