[CentOS-virt] virtio-win for c6?

Mon Jul 11 12:14:10 UTC 2011
Rainer Traut <tr.ml at gmx.de>

Am 11.07.2011 12:33, schrieb Alain Péan:
>> 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...

Yes, i will test for myself, thank you Alain for all this info.

Rainer