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From: Dor Laor <dlaor@redhat.com>
To: carlopmart <carlopmart@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recommended network driver for a windows KVM guest
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:22:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B7CF8DA.3090600@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B7BCA4A.6040009@gmail.com>

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.


      reply	other threads:[~2010-02-18  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-17 10:51 Recommended network driver for a windows KVM guest carlopmart
2010-02-18  8:22 ` Dor Laor [this message]

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