From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Rath Subject: faking vendor-id to guest for driver-install-triggering? Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:15:23 +0200 Message-ID: <4DB816EB.2070405@mglug.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm Return-path: Received: from phineas.fibbs.org ([109.234.106.32]:54517 "EHLO mail.fibbs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759217Ab1D0NTN (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:19:13 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.fibbs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 739C11E68CF for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:13:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.fibbs.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.fibbs.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sOtLJ0VjerwC for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:13:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.172.254] (host-80-81-18-2.customer.m-online.net [80.81.18.2]) by mail.fibbs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 9DE4D1E68CE for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:13:00 +0200 (CEST) Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. Tfh! Oliver