-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/12/2015 05:28 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > 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. I finally wound up just grabbing the virtio-win package from RHEL. It works fine with F21. Thomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlS0k9sACgkQmzle50YHwaBljwCcCS/sIF4KbS4Kc1on4TmWGHxB mNUAoND7bbBy0ZpJaJeVR30pNg5e5cKS =+0WM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
