----- "Tom Horsley" <[email protected]> wrote: > From: "Tom Horsley" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, August 1, 2010 5:33:52 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] virtio-win package? > > On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:53:22 -0500 > Justin M. Forbes wrote: > > > The documentation is busted. We are not allowed to include virtio-win > > drivers in Fedora repositories until we can build them without Windows. > > I figured as much, but just thought I'd ask. The new drivers > do seem to work, but there doesn't appear to be any direct > way to install them so I can boot from virtio without taking > a round-about approach.
Most direct approach is to install the VM with both the XP CD rom and the virtual floppy disk from here http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/13/images/bin/viostor-31-03-2010-floppy.img Set the disk to be virtio and hit the key to load driver disk during install IIRC it's F6 > > What finally worked was: > > Make boot disk IDE > > Make a 2nd disk and call it virtio > > Boot XP and let the new hardware wizard ask about the > new disk. > > Point it to the CDROM with the guest drivers and let > it install the virtio disk driver. > > Now I can shutdown the XP KVM, fiddle the xml file > to change the boot disk back to virtio and remove > the 2nd dummy disk image. > > Finally I can boot from virtio (whew! :-). > _______________________________________________ > virt mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt >
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