My guest is:

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/*release
CentOS release 5.4 (Final)

Let me know if i need to provide any more information in this regard.

Thanks
Jatin

On 5/6/2015 11:11 AM, Jatin Davey wrote:

Hi All

I looked at this page for reference to using virtio drivers on KVM guests.

http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio

In the requirements section it is mentioned that we need a virtio compatible guest with kernel >= 2.6.25

One of my guest has this version:

[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I was still able to use the virtio drivers by enabling the corresponding options in the qemu xml file and also i created a new initrd image file inside my guest using the mkinitrd command as mentioned in the link provided above.

My question is , Is it fine to use the virtio drivers with the kernel that i have for my guest or i definitely need to get to kernel version >= 2.6.25 ?

Thanks
Jatin
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