From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Oliver Rath <rath@mglug.de>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: faking vendor-id to guest for driver-install-triggering?
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:12:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DB9215B.2030404@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DB816EB.2070405@mglug.de>
On 04/27/2011 04:15 PM, Oliver Rath wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> is it possible to announce the kvm-guest (i.e. winxp) some arbitrary
> vendor-id's in a way, that the win-client starts to install the driver
> for this "card"?
>
> I.e. the RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Card has the
> vendor-id 10ec:8168 (taken from lspci -nn), so if i give this ID to the
> kvm-guest, he should install the driver for this card.
It isn't possible without some hacking.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-27 13:15 faking vendor-id to guest for driver-install-triggering? Oliver Rath
2011-04-28 8:12 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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