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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: faking vendor-id to guest for driver-install-triggering?
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:12:11 +0300
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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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