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On 01/12/2015 05:28 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Thomas Cameron
<thomas.cameron(a)camerontech.com> wrote:
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> I am trying to install a Windows 8.1 guest using KVM. I'd like to
> use virtio for network and disk, but I can't seem to find virtio
> drivers that windows 8.1 actually recognizes. Under RHEL 7, it
> would be the virtio-win package. No such package seems to exist
> for F21.
>
> I downloaded the iso from
>
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/
> and made it available to the win8.1 installer as an IDE CD, it
> sees them.
That's all I'm finding. Searching libvirt user and devel lists also
is unrevealing.
This is surprisingly more difficult than I'd expect, I guess most
people just go for dual-boot I guess. But I'd rather have Fedora
take exclusive use of the small SSD in this laptop so that the
bloated space inefficient Windows installation (seriously it's 6
partitions with about 10+GB of wasted space) by using qcow2 or LVM
thinp volumes. The laptop doesn't come with install media, but
through obscure searching found I needed to download an application
from Dell to create recovery media. The resulting media is UEFI
boot only, so at the moment I'm at this stage:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_UEFI_with_QEMU And I'm even
wondering if the recovery media I have will even install, because
my understanding is that it looks at something in the firmware to
get its license activated, there is no serial number anywhere.
> But when I tell win8.1 to use them, it says "did not find any
> drivers" and it still can't see the virtio disk.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> I'll gladly RTFM, but I've looked through the F21 installation
> and system administrator's guide at
>
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ and I don't see a word about
> virtualization. If anyone can point me to the right FM to R, I'll
> go!
Yeah I'm a few critical steps behind you, hopefully I end up in
the same spot sooner than later. The only thin I'm thinking of,
having no functioning UI in front of me, is that maybe you add a
virtio device with a blank qcow2 file backing it, boot Windows
guest, and then right-click on Computer, Manage (something or
other) and get the list of hardware and maybe it'll show you that
virtio device as an unknown thing. You can click on that, get
properties and there's a way to install or update drivers, at which
point maybe it'll accept the drivers you've mounted from the ISO
file you downloaded.
It is definitely worth using virtio.
I finally wound up just grabbing the virtio-win package from RHEL. It
works fine with F21.
Thomas
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