On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Andrew Cathrow <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sven Schwedas" <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Sent: Friday, August 1, 2014 2:29:22 AM
>> Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] XP and virtio
>>
>> On 2014-07-31 20:05, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>> > So I need to create a XP vm. I am using lvm logical volumes for
>> > its disk, so I am using virtio. I got the iso in
>> > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/images/,
>> > but how do I feed it to the XP install? I did try to mount it as a
>> > floppy and it hung there on "please wait"; I guess that means it did
>> > not like a 70MB iso as its floppy. But it also does not seem to want
>> > to look for the drivers if I mount the .iso as a CD. What else can I
>> > try?
>>
>> XP cannot read drivers from additional CDs. You either have to integrate
>> them into the installer with nLite or similar tools, or copy them to a
Is that similar to slipstream?
>> floppy format recognized by XP (whatever that would be).
>
I tried to create a floppy like this
mkfs.vfat -C "virtio-floppy.img" 1440
sudo mount -o loop,uid=$UID -t vfat virtio-floppy.img /mnt
# copy drivers
# umount
then fed it to the xp vm, which cheerfully ignored it.
> And if I remember correctly VirtIO on XP wasn't too much better than IDE so
> using IDE for your install disk should provide acceptable performance. But
> you should still use virtio for your NIC.
>
In that case can I convert
<disk type='block' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source dev='/dev/vmhost_vg1/xp'/>
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
to something like
<disk type='block' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source dev='/dev/vmhost_vg1/xp'/>
<target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
</disk>
and get away with it? If so, I must be missing something.
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