[fedora-virt] Hey, my Win XP machine now bluescreens

[Kenni Lund]

2010/8/1 Justin M. Forbes <jmforbes at linuxtx.org>:
> On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 15:54 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
>> On 01/08/10 15:40, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>
>> > I've had a Windows XP KVM running through several fedora
>> > upgrades and updates, and I just tried starting it for
>> > the first time since getting the libvirt-0.8.2-1.fc13.x86_64
>> > update, and now it bluescreens.
>>
>> Ah, so it's not just me then...
>>
>> > I had been running the redhat virtio disk and network drivers
>> > inside the KVM, have they gone incompatible on me? (I guess
>> > I could try switching the KVM back to IDE emulation and
>> > see if it starts working).
>>
>> It's virtio I suspect. That was certainly what I found, that switching
>> back to IDE fixed it.
>>
>> I thought I had ruled out all likely changes (ie updates to kernel
>> and/or qemu) though so had pretty much decided that Windows had just
>> decided to start objecting to the driver for some reason.
>>
>> It's only booting that seems to be a problem - if you hot add a virtio
>> disk while Windows is running then it can access it just fine.
>
> Are you using the Fedora virtio-win drivers from:
>
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/13/

Are these drivers unsigned/selfsigned/signed? Eg. will Windows
2008/2008R2 accept them?

Thanks,
Kenni