[fedora-virt] Windows XP KVM annoyance

[Avi Kivity]

On 03/31/2010 11:05 AM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> On 03/31/10 00:43, Tom Horsley wrote:
>    
>> I posted this on the test list since it is ff13, but perhaps
>> there might be more insight on the virt list:
>>
>> I just tried running my Windows XP KVM on fedora 13
>> (I installed the KVM under fedora 12). It seemed to work
>> well, but I'm using the redhat virtio drivers for
>> network and disk, and Windows insisted on re-installing
>> the drivers (claiming "new hardware") the first time
>> I booted under fedora 13 libvirtd.
>>
>> Strangely, when I booted the same KVM after going back
>> to fedora 12 on the host, it didn't insist on
>> re-installing the drivers yet again.
>>
>> None of this triggered any Windows activation nonsense
>> (which is why it is only annoying).
>>
>> I guess I should poke around in the windows hardware
>> manager for the details of what changed, but it would
>> sure be nice if things wouldn't change at all :-).
>>      
> The BIOS changed between F12 and F13 and probably the layout of
> how the device is presented to the guest. Plus a couple of other
> things. Windows has the broken idea that it wants to reinstall
> things whenever it sees the same thing in a new place - try
> plugging a USB device into different ports .... really not much
> we can do about it.
>
>    

I thought F12 and F13 were supposed to keep the same pci slot layout.

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