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From: Thomas Mueller <thomas@chaschperli.ch>
To: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-linux-1
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:08:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47CFD0AC.5050103@chaschperli.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fdaac4d50803060231y1ee1425bk3b9d1bd0e48703a@mail.gmail.com>


> On 3/6/08, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> wrote:
>   
>> This is the first release of block and network drivers for Linux guests
>>  running on a kvm host.  The drivers are intended for guest kernels
>>  2.6.18-2.6.24.  Newer kernels include the drivers; older kernels may not
>>  work.  kvm-61 or later is needed in the host.
>> installed.
>>     
>
>   
thanks alot for this!

> Just 1 question: Above is the instruction for guest. How about the
> host? Dont we need to install anything??
>
> I suppose that qemu in the latest kvm package already supported
> virtio, but I think we need some support from host kernel as well?
>   
no, virtio drivers are only needed on guest - but you need latest kvm 
modules on host.

Thomas

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-06 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-06  9:26 [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-linux-1 Avi Kivity
     [not found] ` <7fac565a0803060148k418756f1sb558993f9a5aad1c@mail.gmail.com>
2008-03-06 10:12   ` Alexey Eremenko
2008-03-06 15:59     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-03-06 10:31 ` Jun Koi
2008-03-06 11:08   ` Thomas Mueller [this message]
2008-03-06 14:29   ` Balaji Rao
2008-03-06 16:00     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-03-06 22:19 ` Iain Paton
2008-03-07  2:52   ` Paul Collins
2008-03-16 14:47     ` Avi Kivity

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