[CentOS-virt] KVM - Virtio drivers for Centos 5.1
aurfalien
aurfalien at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 18:12:07 EDT 2012
On Apr 26, 2012, at 6:07 PM, Nux! wrote:
> On 26.04.2012 22:53, aurfalien wrote:
>> On Apr 25, 2012, at 5:46 PM, Lars Hecking wrote:
>>
>>> aurfalien writes:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Really enjoying KVM as I was a long time user of Xen. Both are
>>>> cool, just enjoying the new thing.
>>>>
>>>> Wondering if any one could share some nuggets on how to get a
>>>> Centos 5.1 VM guest to use virtio?
>>>>
>>>> Trying to use virtio over the ide.
>>>
>>> Are you talking about a windows guest?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> So I updated my Centos 5.1 guest kernel only, to 2.6.18-308.4.1.
>>
>> Does this or can it have virtio support?
>>
>> Do I need to install other packages?
>>
>>
>> - aurf
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>
> If that kernel is the one from Centos 5.4 or newer, then you might get
> lucky; ideally you should update the whole thing to latest. Any reason
> to not do so?
Well, its a software license server and I dont want to break anything.
I would rather just update whats needed as the kernel update didn't seem to work.
Or, should I change the fstab on the running VM after setting the disk type to virtio first?
I assume the mount points should be /dev/vda# etc...
- aurf
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