[fedora-virt] virtio requires KVM?

[Dor Laor]

On 04/08/2011 11:51 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> I installed a Win2000 guest on a x86_64 host - but the host doesn't have
> virt CPU features, so it's plain qemu, not KVM.
> Spice video works just fine (except that so far I didn't find win2k
> guest driver for it)
> At the same time, virtio disk and network drivers are not available in
> the GUI -- most likely because KVM is not available.

Virtio does not depends on hardware extensions/kvm and should work with 
qemu, so the issue is probably in virt-manager/libvirt.

>
> So, is it a bug in libvirt or do they really require hardware support?
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> Unrelated, there's a bug in libvirt -- when spice video is used, "Resize
> to VM" doesn't work.. but that's probably a known bug.
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