On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I am trying to install a Windows 8.1 guest using KVM. I'd like to use > virtio for network and disk, but I can't seem to find virtio drivers > that windows 8.1 actually recognizes. Under RHEL 7, it would be the > virtio-win package. No such package seems to exist for F21. > > I downloaded the iso from > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/ and > made it available to the win8.1 installer as an IDE CD, it sees them. That's all I'm finding. Searching libvirt user and devel lists also is unrevealing. This is surprisingly more difficult than I'd expect, I guess most people just go for dual-boot I guess. But I'd rather have Fedora take exclusive use of the small SSD in this laptop so that the bloated space inefficient Windows installation (seriously it's 6 partitions with about 10+GB of wasted space) by using qcow2 or LVM thinp volumes. The laptop doesn't come with install media, but through obscure searching found I needed to download an application from Dell to create recovery media. The resulting media is UEFI boot only, so at the moment I'm at this stage: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_UEFI_with_QEMU And I'm even wondering if the recovery media I have will even install, because my understanding is that it looks at something in the firmware to get its license activated, there is no serial number anywhere. > But when I tell win8.1 to use them, it says "did not find any drivers" > and it still can't see the virtio disk. > > What am I doing wrong? > > I'll gladly RTFM, but I've looked through the F21 installation and > system administrator's guide at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ and I > don't see a word about virtualization. If anyone can point me to the > right FM to R, I'll go! Yeah I'm a few critical steps behind you, hopefully I end up in the same spot sooner than later. The only thin I'm thinking of, having no functioning UI in front of me, is that maybe you add a virtio device with a blank qcow2 file backing it, boot Windows guest, and then right-click on Computer, Manage (something or other) and get the list of hardware and maybe it'll show you that virtio device as an unknown thing. You can click on that, get properties and there's a way to install or update drivers, at which point maybe it'll accept the drivers you've mounted from the ISO file you downloaded. It is definitely worth using virtio. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
