[CentOS-virt] virtio-win for c6?

Mon Jul 11 10:33:46 UTC 2011
Alain Péan <alain.pean at lpp.polytechnique.fr>

Le 11/07/2011 12:21, Rainer Traut a écrit :
> Thx Alain,
>
> Am 11.07.2011 10:24, schrieb Alain Péan:
>> Yes, you can find the virtio-win drivers on fedora site :
>> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/
>>
>> The latest divers are signed by RedHat. You can use them without
>> subscription.
> I found two files in latest dir, one iso and one - I guess - floppy image.
>
> The foppy image contains older drivers than what rh currently ships in
> EL6 while the iso has newer drivers.
> I'd go with the newer ones, but...
>
> Are these drivers said to be compatible with the el6/c6 kvm stuff?
> I guess so, but just to be sure.
>
> And on the iso I cannot find a win2003 dir:
>
> drwxrwxrwx 4 tr tr 2048  4. Apr 10:53 Vista
> drwxrwxrwx 4 tr tr 2048  4. Apr 10:54 Win7
> drwxrwxrwx 4 tr tr 2048  4. Apr 10:54 Wlh
> drwxrwxrwx 4 tr tr 2048  4. Apr 10:54 Wnet
> drwxrwxrwx 3 tr tr 2048  4. Apr 10:54 WXp
> drwxrwxrwx 4 tr tr 2048  4. Apr 10:53 XP
>
> Which dir might be the right one for w2k3?
>
> Thx
> Rainer
>

In fact, these drivers are not especially for el6/c6, but for KVM, in 
general. I use them with KVM 0.14, with windoxs 2003R2, 2008 and 2008 
R2, and they work fine (on Proxmox,, based on Debian...) . On the iso, I 
use the virtio-net drivers from 'Vista' for 2008 R2 and from win7 for 
viostor (virtio disk).
Fedora does not supply officially drivers for server versions of 
windows, but in fact Vista, 7 or XP (for 2003) works fine with 2008 
R2... Just try, you can come back to non virtio drivers (e1000) if 
something looks wrong...

Alain

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