Re: And now for something completely different. Win7 on KVM

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Op 23-10-14 om 18:00 schreef James B. Byrne:
At the moment none I guess. The message is that the client cannot find a
driver.  I have virtio-win-0.1-74.iso and virtio-win-0.1-81.iso on the
hypervisor host.  How do I get the driver from there into the guest?  Does the
client have access to the hypervisor's file-systems?  Do I mount the ISO as a
cd-rom in the guest?  How is that done?  In virt-manager?  Is there a document
somewhere that I can get an idea on how this is supposed to work?


James,

I don't know if help is still needed.

You can mount the iso via virt-manager if you have (or create) a virt-storage-pool.

If you can reboot the client you could edit /etc/libvirt/qemu/virtclientname.xml and add
   <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <source file='/opt/isos/virtio-win-0.1-81.iso'/>
      <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
      <readonly/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' unit='0'/>
to <devices>

(if your client already has more than 2 drives attached, change target dev hdc to hdd or ...)

You can switch your storages to virtio too, I did it in the past but fail to find my notes.

I think that the steps on this page are correct:
http://setdosa.blogspot.be/2013/09/moving-your-windows-guest-from-ide-to.html

And, of course, work on a snapshot or at least have a copy of your client.

If you need help to change the driver in Windows I suggest we take this off-list since some are very allergic to Microsoft.

Patrick
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