[fedora-virt] virtio-win package?

Justin M. Forbes jmforbes at linuxtx.org
Sun Aug 1 20:53:22 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 16:29 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Virtualization_Guide/chap-Virtualization-KVM_Para_virtualized_Drivers.html
> 
> Says the recommended way to get the latest windows virtio
> drivers is to "yum install virtio-win", but apparently there
> is no such package in the fedora 13 repos.
> 
> Are the repos busted, or is the documentation busted?

The documentation is busted. We are not allowed to include virtio-win
drivers in Fedora repositories until we can build them without Windows.
the link I sent earlier has the correct drivers to use.  And they are
much newer than the 9/2009 drivers you were using.

Justin



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