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

Sun Oct 26 19:21:16 UTC 2014
SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:00 PM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>
wrote:

>
> On Thu, October 23, 2014 02:58, Patrick Bervoets wrote:
>
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> 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
>

Yes, you attach the ISO to the CD-ROM of the guest.
>From there the guest can access the ISO as if it was a normal CD-ROM.

I've used VirtIO drivers with WinXP, 7, and 8 in the past without network
or disk performance issues.  They're test VMs only seeing occasional usage,
but they perform quite well.  VirtIO is the way to go.


> somewhere that I can get an idea on how this is supposed to work?
>
> Bear in mind that other than the occasional configuration and diagnostic
> issue
> I have very, very little experience with MS-Win since XPsp3 and none at
> all in
> running it as a guest on KVM.
>
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