Virtio-SCSI & Windows XP

[Jorge Fábregas]

Hi,

Do "Windows XP" guests work with the new virtio-scsi? Do we use the same
old virtio drivers during installation?

Thanks,
Jorge

[Vadim Rozenfeld]

On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 07:38 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  Do "Windows XP" guests work with the new virtio-scsi? Do we use the same
>  old virtio drivers during installation? 
virtio-scsi for WinXP doesn't exist, and it seems like
we are going to drop virtio-scsi for Win2K3 as well.
Vadim.
 
>  
>  Thanks,
>  Jorge
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[Jorge Fábregas]

On 09/11/2013 07:56 AM, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote:
>  virtio-scsi for WinXP doesn't exist, and it seems like
>  we are going to drop virtio-scsi for Win2K3 as well.
>  Vadim. 
Thanks for confirming.  I just wanted to try out the discard='unmap'
option and, if it was available, I still had to investigate if there was
any command like fstrim for XP.

Back to virt-sparsify!  :)

Thanks.

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Jorge

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 06:46:25PM -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
>  On 09/11/2013 07:56 AM, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote:
>  > virtio-scsi for WinXP doesn't exist, and it seems like
>  > we are going to drop virtio-scsi for Win2K3 as well.
>  > Vadim.
>  
>  Thanks for confirming.  I just wanted to try out the discard='unmap'
>  option and, if it was available, I still had to investigate if there was
>  any command like fstrim for XP.
>  
>  Back to virt-sparsify!  :) 
When I get around to it, I'm going to change virt-sparsify to do
in-place sparsification, which *should* now be possible (at least with
some underlying disk image combinations).  This would work with any
Windows guest including XP since it'll be using a recent Linux kernel
+ recent virtio-scsi + ntfs-3g.

Rich.

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