Re: Recommended network driver for a windows KVM guest

Dor Laor
2010-02-18T08:22:01Z

On 02/17/2010 12:51 PM, carlopmart wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to install several windows KVM (rhel5.4 host fully updated)
> guests for iSCSI boot. iSCSI servers are Solaris/OpenSolaris storage
> servers and I need to boot windows guests (2008R2 and Win7) using gpxe.
> Can i use virtio net dirver during windows install or e1000 driver??

rhel5.4 does not have gpxe so it won't work. rhel5.5 will have such but
I don't recall someone testing iScsi with kvm+gpxe on upstream too,
worth testing.

Anyway, virtio performs better than e1000 and potentially more stable
than it.

>
> Many thanks.