Hello, I Installed 5.4 on a test system to use KVM, but i didn't find the "virtio-win" package with the Windows drivers.
-> http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtualiz...
Is this a CentOS or Upstream Problem?
Regards, Sebastian
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 04:14:00PM +0200, Sebastian Marten wrote:
Hello, I Installed 5.4 on a test system to use KVM, but i didn't find the "virtio-win" package with the Windows drivers.
Looks like these are provided via the RHN Supplementary Channel. I'd imagine they are not freely distributable?
I'm sure someone else can confirm.
Ray
Ray Van Dolson wrote:
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 04:14:00PM +0200, Sebastian Marten wrote:
Hello, I Installed 5.4 on a test system to use KVM, but i didn't find the "virtio-win" package with the Windows drivers.
Looks like these are provided via the RHN Supplementary Channel. I'd imagine they are not freely distributable?
I'm sure someone else can confirm.
Ray
There are freely redistributable, but still they aren't published by upstream. You can use these instead: http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/windows-binary-virtio-drivers-finally-relea..., but there are a lot of problems with any windows 64 bits. And another problem, a big really, is that you can¡t install a windows kvm guest directly to a virtio disk. First you need to install to an ide disk, after generate a virtio disk and attach to win guest, install the virtio driver and last remove ide drive ... very very ugly.
On Dec 1. the drivers are available on the Supplementary channel
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2009-1624.html
Any chance to get them for CentOS?
Sebastian
2009/10/22 carlopmart carlopmart@gmail.com
Ray Van Dolson wrote:
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 04:14:00PM +0200, Sebastian Marten wrote:
Hello, I Installed 5.4 on a test system to use KVM, but i didn't find the "virtio-win" package with the Windows drivers.
Looks like these are provided via the RHN Supplementary Channel. I'd imagine they are not freely distributable?
I'm sure someone else can confirm.
Ray
There are freely redistributable, but still they aren't published by upstream. You can use these instead:
http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/windows-binary-virtio-drivers-finally-relea..., but there are a lot of problems with any windows 64 bits. And another problem, a big really, is that you can¡t install a windows kvm guest directly to a virtio disk. First you need to install to an ide disk, after generate a virtio disk and attach to win guest, install the virtio driver and last remove ide drive ... very very ugly.
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On 23/12/09 12:51, Sebastian wrote:
On Dec 1. the drivers are available on the Supplementary channel
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2009-1624.html
Any chance to get them for CentOS?
the official centos policy is to only build freely distributable sources published from upstream on that route.
- KB
Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 23/12/09 12:51, Sebastian wrote:
On Dec 1. the drivers are available on the Supplementary channel
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2009-1624.html
Any chance to get them for CentOS?
the official centos policy is to only build freely distributable sources published from upstream on that route.
- KB
Especially if that implies having some Windows machines to build them ;-) If you have RHN access, feel free to have a look at the SRPM, and for sure in the SPEC/Makefile : that's "interesting" .. :-p
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