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

Thu Apr 26 22:23:01 UTC 2012
Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro>

On 26.04.2012 23:12, aurfalien wrote:
> 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...

Yes, virtio devices are /dev/vdX.
You might be better off using UUIDs or LABELs instead.

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