[fedora-virt] Virtio-win Windows NIC goes offline during bulkcopies

[Greg Scott]

Grabbed it.  I found a netkvm.sys in vista\amd64, vista\x86, and in an
x86 directory in one of the xp trees.  I am guessing I want the Vista
one for Win2008R2?  And the XP one will work with Win2003?

I want to test this on my Win2008R2 virtual machine, but I don't have
local access to the host anymore.  I've tried using xming and putty to
run virt-manager and display on this Windows PC, but virt-manager just
doesn't respond well in that environment - several minutes to even
display a VM console.  In the hopes that a Linux X server might work
lots better, I can rig one up here, but I was wondering if anyone knows
how to display it on a Linux X server?  On the X server here, I can do
xhost +, but how do I set the display back to here on the X application
client - the RHEL system at the colo site?

And a question - this version is 0.1 - are we **sure**  this is newer
than the 1.2.1 version available via yum?  What does WHQL'd mean?  I'm
guessing it's a checkin process?

Thanks

- Greg Scott



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:virt-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Andrew
Cathrow
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 2:45 PM
To: Tom Horsley
Cc: virt at lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] Virtio-win Windows NIC goes offline during
bulkcopies



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Horsley" <horsley1953 at gmail.com>
> To: virt at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Sunday, September 4, 2011 2:09:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] Virtio-win Windows NIC goes offline during
bulkcopies
> On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:17:59 +0300
> Vadim Rozenfeld wrote:
> 
> > The latest (non-WHQL'ed) driver can be downloaded from the following
> > location:
> > http://people.redhat.com/vrozenfe/virtio-win-prewhql-0.1.zip
> 
> Yet another completely random location :-).
> 
> Is there some link I can bookmark that will always point me to
> the path to find the latest virtio windows drivers? It seems
> to be quite an adventure to find them any time I happen to
> wonder if there are new versions available.

Latest WHQL'd drivers will always been on RHN bit.ly/virtio-win
So the latest ones today are here
https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/packages/details/Overview.do?pid=631
726 

Latest source is
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers

Which points to
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/ which
*should* have the latest signed (not whql'd) divers

But, it looks like they haven't been updated on that last link, so we'll
fix that.

Aic



> 
> Google searches always turn up random collections of random
> locations like this, and no way to know which one is really
> the latest. (Or things that are clearly outdated because
> the drivers the articles speak of aren't there any more).
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