Op 23-10-14 om 18:00 schreef James B. Byrne:
> At the moment none I guess. The message is that the client cannot find a
> driver. I have virtio-win-0.1-74.iso and virtio-win-0.1-81.iso on the
> hypervisor host. How do I get the driver from there into the guest? Does the
> client have access to the hypervisor's file-systems? Do I mount the ISO as a
> cd-rom in the guest? How is that done? In virt-manager? Is there a document
> somewhere that I can get an idea on how this is supposed to work?
>
James,
I don't know if help is still needed.
You can mount the iso via virt-manager if you have (or create) a virt-storage-pool.
If you can reboot the client you could edit /etc/libvirt/qemu/virtclientname.xml and add
<disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source file='/opt/isos/virtio-win-0.1-81.iso'/>
<target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
<readonly/>
<address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' unit='0'/>
to <devices>
(if your client already has more than 2 drives attached, change target dev hdc to hdd or ...)
You can switch your storages to virtio too, I did it in the past but fail to find my notes.
I think that the steps on this page are correct:
http://setdosa.blogspot.be/2013/09/moving-your-windows-guest-from-ide-to.html
And, of course, work on a snapshot or at least have a copy of your client.
If you need help to change the driver in Windows I suggest we take this off-list since some are very allergic to Microsoft.
Patrick