1:05 p.m.
So I need to create a XP vm. I am using lvm logical volumes for
its disk, so I am using virtio. I got the iso in
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/images/,
but how do I feed it to the XP install? I did try to mount it as a
floppy and it hung there on "please wait"; I guess that means it did
not like a 70MB iso as its floppy. But it also does not seem to want
to look for the drivers if I mount the .iso as a CD. What else can I
try?
1:29 a.m.
On 2014-07-31 20:05, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
So I need to create a XP vm. I am using lvm logical volumes
for
its disk, so I am using virtio. I got the iso in
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/images/,
but how do I feed it to the XP install? I did try to mount it as a
floppy and it hung there on "please wait"; I guess that means it did
not like a 70MB iso as its floppy. But it also does not seem to want
to look for the drivers if I mount the .iso as a CD. What else can I
try?
XP cannot read drivers from additional CDs. You either have to integrate
them into the installer with nLite or similar tools, or copy them to a
floppy format recognized by XP (whatever that would be).
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5:49 a.m.
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From: "Sven Schwedas" <sven.schwedas(a)tao.at>
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Sent: Friday, August 1, 2014 2:29:22 AM
Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] XP and virtio
On 2014-07-31 20:05, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> So I need to create a XP vm. I am using lvm logical volumes for
> its disk, so I am using virtio. I got the iso in
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/images/,
> but how do I feed it to the XP install? I did try to mount it as a
> floppy and it hung there on "please wait"; I guess that means it did
> not like a 70MB iso as its floppy. But it also does not seem to want
> to look for the drivers if I mount the .iso as a CD. What else can I
> try?
XP cannot read drivers from additional CDs. You either have to integrate
them into the installer with nLite or similar tools, or copy them to a
floppy format recognized by XP (whatever that would be).
And if I remember correctly VirtIO on XP wasn't too much better than IDE so using IDE
for your install disk should provide acceptable performance. But you should still use
virtio for your NIC.
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Sven Schwedas
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7:48 a.m.
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Andrew Cathrow <acathrow(a)redhat.com> wrote:
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sven Schwedas" <sven.schwedas(a)tao.at>
> To: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com
> Sent: Friday, August 1, 2014 2:29:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] XP and virtio
>
> On 2014-07-31 20:05, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> > So I need to create a XP vm. I am using lvm logical volumes for
> > its disk, so I am using virtio. I got the iso in
> > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/images/,
> > but how do I feed it to the XP install? I did try to mount it as a
> > floppy and it hung there on "please wait"; I guess that means it did
> > not like a 70MB iso as its floppy. But it also does not seem to want
> > to look for the drivers if I mount the .iso as a CD. What else can I
> > try?
>
> XP cannot read drivers from additional CDs. You either have to integrate
> them into the installer with nLite or similar tools, or copy them to a
Is that similar to slipstream?
> floppy format recognized by XP (whatever that would be).
I tried to create a floppy like this
mkfs.vfat -C "virtio-floppy.img" 1440
sudo mount -o loop,uid=$UID -t vfat virtio-floppy.img /mnt
# copy drivers
# umount
then fed it to the xp vm, which cheerfully ignored it.
And if I remember correctly VirtIO on XP wasn't too much better
than IDE so using IDE for your install disk should provide acceptable performance. But you
should still use virtio for your NIC.
In that case can I convert
<disk type='block' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source dev='/dev/vmhost_vg1/xp'/>
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
to something like
<disk type='block' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<source dev='/dev/vmhost_vg1/xp'/>
<target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
</disk>
and get away with it? If so, I must be missing something.
>
>
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