On Dec 1. the drivers are available on the Supplementary channel https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2009-1624.html Any chance to get them for CentOS? Sebastian 2009/10/22 carlopmart <carlopmart at gmail.com> > Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 04:14:00PM +0200, Sebastian Marten wrote: > >> Hello, > >> I Installed 5.4 on a test system to use KVM, but i didn't find the > >> "virtio-win" package with the Windows drivers. > >> > > > > Looks like these are provided via the RHN Supplementary Channel. I'd > > imagine they are not freely distributable? > > > > I'm sure someone else can confirm. > > > > Ray > > There are freely redistributable, but still they aren't published by > upstream. You > can use these instead: > > http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/windows-binary-virtio-drivers-finally-released, > but > there are a lot of problems with any windows 64 bits. And another problem, > a big > really, is that you can¡t install a windows kvm guest directly to a virtio > disk. > First you need to install to an ide disk, after generate a virtio disk and > attach to > win guest, install the virtio driver and last remove ide drive ... very > very ugly. > > -- > CL Martinez > carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091223/c66f3dce/attachment-0003.html>