CentOS - Oct 2014 - And now for something completely different. Win7 on KVM

As you can probably guess by now I am working my way down through my
outstanding issue list trying to get as many deferred items closed out as I
can before the next security storm hits.

We have a Win7pro KVM guest that has been giving us networking issues since it
was created.  The last problem was that it was picking up its network address
from the virtio DHCP service, with predicable results.  This turned out to be
an issue with how the virtual nic was configured (it was using NAT instead of
the br0 bridge.

We have adjusted the settings on the guest so the the nic is configured as a
shared device / br0 / Device Model=virtio.  Now after it boots the thing says
that it does not have a driver for Ethernet adaptor at all.  Is there a
different setting for the model that I should be using?

I have to point out that this thing was originally installed from cd-rom and
then updated from the internet. So at some point it must have had a working
network connection.  Any ideas as to how to get it to find the network
interface again?

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Op 22-10-14 om 23:15 schreef James B. Byrne:
> As you can probably guess by now I am working my way down through my
> outstanding issue list trying to get as many deferred items closed out as I
> can before the next security storm hits.
>
> We have a Win7pro KVM guest that has been giving us networking issues since
it
> was created.  The last problem was that it was picking up its network
address
> from the virtio DHCP service, with predicable results.  This turned out to
be
> an issue with how the virtual nic was configured (it was using NAT instead
of
> the br0 bridge.
>
> We have adjusted the settings on the guest so the the nic is configured as
a
> shared device / br0 / Device Model=virtio.  Now after it boots the thing
says
> that it does not have a driver for Ethernet adaptor at all.  Is there a
> different setting for the model that I should be using?
>
> I have to point out that this thing was originally installed from cd-rom
and
> then updated from the internet. So at some point it must have had a working
> network connection.  Any ideas as to how to get it to find the network
> interface again?
>
James,

on the client, which driver do you use? Mine is 'Red Hat VirtIO Ethernet
Adapter' 61.65.104.7400 20/11/2013. I got it from virtio-win-0.1-74.iso

Patrick

> On Oct 22, 2014, at 15:15, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>
wrote:
> 
> 
> As you can probably guess by now I am working my way down through my
> outstanding issue list trying to get as many deferred items closed out as I
> can before the next security storm hits.
They stopped?  :-)

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