[CentOS] And now for something completely different. Win7 on KVM

[Patrick Bervoets]

Op 22-10-14 om 23:15 schreef James B. Byrne:
> As you can probably guess by now I am working my way down through my
> outstanding issue list trying to get as many deferred items closed out as I
> can before the next security storm hits.
>
> We have a Win7pro KVM guest that has been giving us networking issues since it
> was created.  The last problem was that it was picking up its network address
> from the virtio DHCP service, with predicable results.  This turned out to be
> an issue with how the virtual nic was configured (it was using NAT instead of
> the br0 bridge.
>
> We have adjusted the settings on the guest so the the nic is configured as a
> shared device / br0 / Device Model=virtio.  Now after it boots the thing says
> that it does not have a driver for Ethernet adaptor at all.  Is there a
> different setting for the model that I should be using?
>
> I have to point out that this thing was originally installed from cd-rom and
> then updated from the internet. So at some point it must have had a working
> network connection.  Any ideas as to how to get it to find the network
> interface again?
>

James,

on the client, which driver do you use? Mine is 'Red Hat VirtIO Ethernet Adapter' 61.65.104.7400 20/11/2013. I got it from virtio-win-0.1-74.iso

Patrick