----- "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-... 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 virt@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 18:33:11 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Cathrow wrote:
Set the disk to be virtio and hit the key to load driver disk during install IIRC it's F6
I could do that if I was installing XP, but I'm just trying to get an existing XP image working again (which I did eventually :-).
You don't happen to know if there is some mysterious highly underdocumented magic key I can hit during boot to get an existing XP to load new drivers at boot time do you? Or some magic commands I can use by booting to a safe mode command line?
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