On my fedora 22 box, I have a Windows 7 KVM with virtio drivers for disk and network and qxl and spice for video. It works really well, but of course it keeps badgering me to upgrade to Windows 10.
Are there virtio drivers available for Windows 10 yet? The page at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers still talks like Windows XP is likely to be running.
Is there a guide anywhere for how to get the Windows 10 update to actually install properly inside a KVM? (I can find lots of pages describing how it doesn't work :-).
Naturally whatever I wind up doing, I'll be saving a copy of the disk image from Windows 7 so I can easily revert back.
On 12 December 2015 at 15:30, Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com wrote:
On my fedora 22 box, I have a Windows 7 KVM with virtio drivers for disk and network and qxl and spice for video. It works really well, but of course it keeps badgering me to upgrade to Windows 10.
Are there virtio drivers available for Windows 10 yet? The page at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers still talks like Windows XP is likely to be running.
Is there a guide anywhere for how to get the Windows 10 update to actually install properly inside a KVM? (I can find lots of pages describing how it doesn't work :-).
Naturally whatever I wind up doing, I'll be saving a copy of the disk image from Windows 7 so I can easily revert back.
Well the page does mention qxldod for win8+ ...
Also the changelog refers to win10 in places:
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/CHANGELOG
I'd be interested in hearing your feedback for how this goes!
About the virtio drivers, install win 8.1 drivers for win10, if i remember right you only have 3 drivers to install, don't remember which one though
2015-12-12 16:30 GMT+01:00 Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com:
On my fedora 22 box, I have a Windows 7 KVM with virtio drivers for disk and network and qxl and spice for video. It works really well, but of course it keeps badgering me to upgrade to Windows 10.
Are there virtio drivers available for Windows 10 yet? The page at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers still talks like Windows XP is likely to be running.
Is there a guide anywhere for how to get the Windows 10 update to actually install properly inside a KVM? (I can find lots of pages describing how it doesn't work :-).
Naturally whatever I wind up doing, I'll be saving a copy of the disk image from Windows 7 so I can easily revert back. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Tom Horsley writes:
On my fedora 22 box, I have a Windows 7 KVM with virtio drivers for disk and network and qxl and spice for video. It works really well, but of course it keeps badgering me to upgrade to Windows 10.
Are there virtio drivers available for Windows 10 yet? The page at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers still talks like Windows XP is likely to be running.
Last week Windows 10 update claimed that it was going to install Red Hat's virtio driver, FWIW. My Windows 10 VM is using the default IDE driver and not virtio.
Is there a guide anywhere for how to get the Windows 10 update to actually install properly inside a KVM? (I can find lots of pages describing how it doesn't work :-).
The first attempt to update from Windows 7 to 10 ended up bluescreening due to a processor exception of some kind. Some Googling around suggested a small tweak to the kvm XML config.
<cpu mode='custom' match='exact'> <model fallback='allow'>core2duo</model> <feature policy='require' name='nx'/> </cpu>
With this, I was able to install the Windows 10 update, and, last week, the big update to build 1511.
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