From: "Halsey Pian" <halsey.pian@gmail.com>
To: 'Stefan Hajnoczi' <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Help for backport virtio to older kernel 2.6.18
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 12:54:41 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <006701d06d01$23ec54b0$6bc4fe10$@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <011b01d06ba8$8b3839e0$a1a8ada0$@gmail.com>
Best Regards
Halsey Pian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Halsey Pian [mailto:halsey.pian@gmail.com]
> Sent: 2015年3月31日 19:48
> To: 'Stefan Hajnoczi'
> Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; halsey.pian@gmail.com
> Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] Help for backport virtio to older kernel 2.6.18
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:stefanha@gmail.com]
> > Sent: 2015年3月30日 23:33
> > To: Halsey Pian
> > Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Help for backport virtio to older kernel
> > 2.6.18
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 04:25:50PM +0800, Halsey Pian wrote:
> > > It seems that virtio disk driver is included in kernel version
> > > started from 2.6.32, but for 2.6.18 (using redhat5 as VM), we have
> > > to backport the virtio driver. And I found that there is a link in
> link below,
> > but cannot be opened. Could you provide help on it?
> >
> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 guests support virtio devices. You should
> > not need to compile or backport anything for virtio-net or
> virtio-
> > blk.
> >
> > Please refer to the official documentation and support channels:
> > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux
> > /5/html/Virtualization/index.html
>
> > Stefan
>
> [Halsey] thanks for your info, Stefan. I would check it.
>
> Halsey
Stefan, Redhat 5 does support virtio block, but for other Linux distributions with kernel < 2.6.25 no virtio support, we also need
backport virtio if we want to use it.
I checked the link for backport it in KVM website, still cannot be found. Would you have some info for it? Thanks!
[Halsey]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-02 4:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-30 8:25 [Qemu-devel] Help for backport virtio to older kernel 2.6.18 Halsey Pian
2015-03-30 15:33 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-03-31 11:47 ` Halsey Pian
2015-04-02 4:54 ` Halsey Pian [this message]
2015-04-02 8:49 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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