[CentOS-virt] KVM - Virtio drivers for Centos 5.1

Thu Apr 26 22:12:07 UTC 2012
aurfalien <aurfalien at gmail.com>

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