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

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 14, 2011

[ 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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