Hello Fam.
I managed to installed Windows with the *Virtio* drivers. Thanks for your tip. It has made a change in that I got 2X more graphics memory. But not nearly enough. I need 512 and now I have 16. How do I specify to Virtio how much memory to allocate? Thanks Jenia On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Sun, 05/14 19:39, jenia.ivlev wrote: > > > > I wanted to get more graphics memory on my QEMU Windows client. > > > > I decided to install **Virtio** drivers for QEMU to achieve that purpose. > > > > I create an *imagine_file* like this: > > > > > > qemu-img create -f raw image_file 4G > > > > > > Also, I ran the windows-install like this: > > > > > > qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 4G -cdrom "OS.iso" -boot order=c > -drive file=image_file,if=virtio > > > > > > But when Windows ran, it didn't find any hard-drive (the *image_file* > > basically). It asked for some drivers instead. I think it wanted drivers > > to communicate with the hard-drive (*image_file*). > > > > Running the install without Virtio works though: > > > > > > qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 4G -cdrom "OS.iso" -boot order=d > -drive file=image_file,format=raw > > > > > > The difference betweeen the two commands is: > > > > > > order=c vs order=d > > > > > > and > > > > > > if=virtio vs format=raw > > > > > > How do I install windows with Virtio in QEMU? > > > > My original goal is to get 512 MB of graphics memory on Windows (running > > as a guest in QEMU). Unfortunately, by default (no Virtio) I get 8MB of > > video memory which is not enough for my purposes > > > > > > Thanks > > > > P.S. My OS is Arch-Linux > > Since you use ArchLinux, wiki.archlinux.org is rather helpful, as > always. Yes, > you need virtio drivers: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#New_Install_of_Windows > > > Fam >
