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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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? 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