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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next prev parent 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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