Colin Coe wrote : > Yep I saw that, but I'm doing fully virtuallised...
I think you're confused by "para" vs. "full" here. You can have bits of both : You can only fully virtualize Windows with RHEL, you can't para-virtualize it as it would require a special kernel and whatnot. *BUT* you can para-virtualize some hardware which benefits from more direct I/O between host and guest, and for fully virtualized Windows guests, those are the network and block devices, which then require some special drivers. I hope I've been clear enough to clear some things up :-) Matthias > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Matthias Saou > <th...@spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net> > wrote: > > Colin Coe wrote : > > > >> Related to this, anyone know if its possible (and if so how) to > >> install a fully virtualised Windows XP and or Windows Server 2008R2 > >> onto a VirtIO harddisk? I can't find the drivers for this scenario. > > > > It's all detailed here : > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Virtualization_Guide/chap-Virtualization-KVM_Para_virtualized_Drivers.html > > > > Apparently, it's not supported for XP, though. I also recall reading > > somewhere that it wasn't supported for the block device from which > > Windows boots, only additional disks, but I can't seem to find that > > information again. > > > > Matthias > > > > -- > > Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ > > Fedora release 12 (Constantine) - Linux kernel 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64 > > Load : 0.02 0.04 0.05 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rhelv5-list mailing list > > rhelv5-list@redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > > > > > -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora release 12 (Constantine) - Linux kernel 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64 Load : 0.32 0.48 0.24 _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
