Hi all,
With the latest kvm updates, somebody have tried to install windows 2008 R2/windows 7 as a kvm guest using e1000 or virtio net driver?? Works with the windows installer??
Thanks.
I have both windows 7 and win 2008 installed as kvm guests, but they were installed with the initial release of centos 5.4. And I have installed all updates since. I don't like the virtio drivers, so I never use them. Are you having issues?
compdoc wrote:
I have both windows 7 and win 2008 installed as kvm guests, but they were installed with the initial release of centos 5.4. And I have installed all updates since. I don't like the virtio drivers, so I never use them. Are you having issues?
Not at this momment because i didn't start any installation. I would to know where I can find problems using virtio or e1000 net drivers ...
Thanks.
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 19:21 +0100, carlopmart wrote:
compdoc wrote:
I have both windows 7 and win 2008 installed as kvm guests, but they were installed with the initial release of centos 5.4. And I have installed all updates since. I don't like the virtio drivers, so I never use them. Are you having issues?
Not at this momment because i didn't start any installation. I would to know where I can find problems using virtio or e1000 net drivers ...
Of the two, I only have win7 64-bit installed as a kvm guest.
Using e1000 was trivial. Use it at installation or add it after installation.
To use the virtio-win drivers in vista 64-bit and later, you will need signed drivers for installation. From my reading about 32-bit vista and later, you can use unsigned drivers there.
As far as I know, only redhat provides release-signed drivers via the virtio-win supplement. Those have redistribution restriction, so unless you have a rhn entitlement... The unsigned drivers themselves were opensourced.
You can test-sign the netkvm (virtio net) driver, but you need to run the guest in testsigning mode to install them after the fact. I have run test-signed netkvm drivers (Sept. 24, 2009 driver release) on win7 and they worked OK, but did not extensively test them. Actually, they worked fine on all guests I tried (winxp 32-bit, vista 64-bit, win7 64-bit).
Went back to e1000, rather than run the system in testsigning mode (ugly display, something like safe mode). The e1000 works fine, no hassles installing/using it under win7.
Currently, the only guest I have running the netkvm driver is winxp, because e1000 was not a trivial option.
Before you ask, could never get win7 to boot using the viostor (virtio blk) drivers, but could get winxp and vista to boot on them. From what I have read, the viostor drivers (Sept. 24, 2009 release) are not ready for prime time, but there were updated viostor drivers released recently that I have not tested.
Steve
S.Tindall wrote:
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 19:21 +0100, carlopmart wrote:
compdoc wrote:
I have both windows 7 and win 2008 installed as kvm guests, but they were installed with the initial release of centos 5.4. And I have installed all updates since. I don't like the virtio drivers, so I never use them. Are you having issues?
Not at this momment because i didn't start any installation. I would to know where I can find problems using virtio or e1000 net drivers ...
Of the two, I only have win7 64-bit installed as a kvm guest.
Using e1000 was trivial. Use it at installation or add it after installation.
To use the virtio-win drivers in vista 64-bit and later, you will need signed drivers for installation. From my reading about 32-bit vista and later, you can use unsigned drivers there.
As far as I know, only redhat provides release-signed drivers via the virtio-win supplement. Those have redistribution restriction, so unless you have a rhn entitlement... The unsigned drivers themselves were opensourced.
You can test-sign the netkvm (virtio net) driver, but you need to run the guest in testsigning mode to install them after the fact. I have run test-signed netkvm drivers (Sept. 24, 2009 driver release) on win7 and they worked OK, but did not extensively test them. Actually, they worked fine on all guests I tried (winxp 32-bit, vista 64-bit, win7 64-bit).
Went back to e1000, rather than run the system in testsigning mode (ugly display, something like safe mode). The e1000 works fine, no hassles installing/using it under win7.
Currently, the only guest I have running the netkvm driver is winxp, because e1000 was not a trivial option.
Before you ask, could never get win7 to boot using the viostor (virtio blk) drivers, but could get winxp and vista to boot on them. From what I have read, the viostor drivers (Sept. 24, 2009 release) are not ready for prime time, but there were updated viostor drivers released recently that I have not tested.
Steve
Many thanks for this info Steve.
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