Bill McGonigle wrote: > Hi, all, > > I'm attempting to run a Windows 2003 (32-bit) VM under CentOS 5.4, > generally following: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM ARGHH ... forget that page as it was written during the first kvm tests and ïsn't current anymore see http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtualization_Guide/index.html for accurate documentation (as http://www.centos.org/docs is outdated and doesn't even cover kvm) > > I've seen nice performance benefits with the VirtIO driver under Fedora, > so I'd like to get that running with CentOS as well. I have the > September drivers build .iso. > > According to: > > http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio > > I need a KVM version 60 or later - fair enough. Back at the wiki > there's a note about later KVM in -testing, and sure enough there's a > -66 there, but it's only built for an old kernel. > > I got that SRPM and tried to build it against the current kernel, but > get kmod build errors, ala: > > > /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/kvm-kmod-66/_kmod_build_/kernel/external-module-compat.h:421: > error: redefinition of typedef 'bool' > ... > > /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/kvm-kmod-66/_kmod_build_/kernel/external-module-compat.h:734:1: > warning: "__aligned" redefined > > The wiki also has a note about -84 being in Levente Farkas's repo, but > those don't appear to be there any longer. > > So, questions: > 1) what are folks generally using for VirtIO-capable KVM on CentOS 5.4? The standard kvm from 5.4 and not the *old* one from extras > 2) given that the upstream has Windows drivers available, I'm curios how > they're handling the issue, and if we're in sync. > 3) does anybody have the SRPM that was at Farkas's repo or know if it > went elsewhere? I assume the build issues have been solved there already. > > I'd be happy to update the Wiki with info from responses here. > > Thanks, > -Bill > -- -- Fabian Arrotin test -e /dev/human/brain || ( echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq ; echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger )