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

Thu Apr 26 22:07:05 UTC 2012
Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro>

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?

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