Re: Virtio and WinXP (disk drivers)

[Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>]

Alpár Török schrieb:
> 2009/2/25 Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>:
>> Alpár Török schrieb:
>>
>>>> Indeed virtio performs better than e1000.
>>>> It should work, please provide host kernel version, kvm version, virtio
>>>> net
>>>> version and
>>>> windows guest type. Also the cmdline and monitor command will help.
>>> kernel is 2.6.25.16-0.1-default of openSuse 11.0
>>> KVM version is 63-31.1 (also shipped with the distribution)
>> This is pretty ancient version - could you try kvm-84 to see if it solves
>> your problems?
> 
> Yes, just to see if it works is not a problem. But i have many
> machines, compiling for each of them would be unpractical, perhaps i
> can make a new kernel rpm and install that for the other VMs, with the
> latest KVM compiled in, if there's no other option i will try that, to
> see if it solves the problems. Is there anything else that slipped my
> mind, that would allow me to update kvm on all machines? I knew that
> the version shipped with the distribution is old, but i went with it
> for convenience of installation .

If you don't want to compile a new kernel and make a package.

You can compile KVM to work with your old kernel.

Then, distribute kernel modules (3 files) and kvm/qemu binary (4th file) 
with rsync, done.
Still, you will have to stop virtual machines, remove/insert kvm 
modules, start the guests.

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Tomasz Chmielewski
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