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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt 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? -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro