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virtio not installing correctly
2016 Feb 02
2
virtio not installing correctly
I have converted a physical machine to kvm, following instructions on the proxmox wiki. So far so good. Now I'm attempting to convert the vm from ide to virtio following the instructions here, http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Boot_from_virtio_block_device, with virtio-win-stable from Fedora. The guest is running Windows XP. When the new hardware wizard popped up finding the RedHat VirtIO SCSI controller, I pointed it to the viostor/xp directory on the iso. It appears as if all files have been copied, viostor.sys to C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS, the...
virtio not installing correctly
2016 Feb 02
0
virtio not installing correctly
Hi, I did many physical (Windows) to virtual (kvm) conversions before. The instructions in general are good here: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Boot_from_virtio_block_device , so yes, you must add a dummy ("fake") 2nd disk drive to the guest first, boot up the guest, install the virtio drivers to that 2nd virtual HDD and after that you can shutdown the guest, remove the dummy drive from the guest's config and switch the original 1st disk's setting...
virtio not installing correctly
2016 Feb 02
2
virtio not installing correctly
Zoltan Frombach writes: > Hi, > > I did many physical (Windows) to virtual (kvm) conversions before. The > instructions in general are good here: > http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Boot_from_virtio_block_device , so yes, you > must add a dummy ("fake") 2nd disk drive to the guest first, boot up the > guest, install the virtio drivers to that 2nd virtual HDD and after that you > can shutdown the guest, remove the dummy drive from the guest's config and > switch the original 1st di...
virtio not installing correctly
2016 Feb 02
0
virtio not installing correctly
On 2/2/2016 12:05 PM, isdtor wrote: > Zoltan Frombach writes: >> Hi, >> >> I did many physical (Windows) to virtual (kvm) conversions before. The >> instructions in general are good here: >> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Boot_from_virtio_block_device , so yes, you >> must add a dummy ("fake") 2nd disk drive to the guest first, boot up the >> guest, install the virtio drivers to that 2nd virtual HDD and after that you >> can shutdown the guest, remove the dummy drive from the guest's config and >> switch the...