Trying to install a Windows 8.1 guest under KVM

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 01/10/2015 02:20 PM, Thomas Cameron 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.
> 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!
>
> Thanks!
> Thomas
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Does it HAVE to be KVM?...or could VMWare / VirtualBox / or some other 
virtualization technology work? I'm just saying. I've yet to virtualize 
anything with F-21, but I use either Boxes or VirtualBox instead of KVM. 
It just makes for easier running of various OS'es. Sorry I wasn't much 
more help than that.


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