----- "Tom Horsley" <horsley1953@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: "Tom Horsley" <horsley1953@gmail.com>
> To: virt@lists.fedoraproject.org
> 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! :-).
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