Set up RH VirtIO SCSI&Network drivers on Windows 7, Windows XP KVMs (RESUBMIT)

[ Thanks to Boris Derzhavets for this link. ]

"Create Windows KVM via virt-manager as usual. Download Latest VirtIO Win drivers from Fedora. Location is http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/. Notice also , that the last virtio-win-1.1.16-0.el6.noarch.rpm ( Last Redhat virtio signed windows driver ) been installed on Scientific Linux 6, allows to perform install Windows 7 KVM directly on "virtio" boot up device via loading drivers from virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd been attached as floppy to KVM before installation starts up. Virtio-win-1.1.16-0.el6.noarch.rpm may be downloaded in meantime at http://rghost.net/3412907.

"View for details "Virtio install Windows 7 KVM (x64/x86) on Scientific Linux 6 (alpha 4) Download files virtio-win-1.1.11-0.vfd and ISO image virtio-win-1.1.11-0.iso to Fedora's FS. Create fake qcow2 file :-"

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