Ah, OK, I'll have another look at that when I get to work tomorrow... CC
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Matthias Saou <th...@spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net> wrote: > Colin Coe wrote : > >> Yep I saw that, but I'm doing fully virtuallised... > > I think you're confused by "para" vs. "full" here. You can have bits of > both : You can only fully virtualize Windows with RHEL, you can't > para-virtualize it as it would require a special kernel and whatnot. > *BUT* you can para-virtualize some hardware which benefits from more > direct I/O between host and guest, and for fully virtualized Windows > guests, those are the network and block devices, which then require > some special drivers. > > I hope I've been clear enough to clear some things up :-) > > Matthias > >> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Matthias Saou >> <th...@spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net> >> wrote: >> > Colin Coe wrote : >> > >> >> Related to this, anyone know if its possible (and if so how) to >> >> install a fully virtualised Windows XP and or Windows Server 2008R2 >> >> onto a VirtIO harddisk? I can't find the drivers for this scenario. >> > >> > It's all detailed here : >> > http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Virtualization_Guide/chap-Virtualization-KVM_Para_virtualized_Drivers.html >> > >> > Apparently, it's not supported for XP, though. I also recall reading >> > somewhere that it wasn't supported for the block device from which >> > Windows boots, only additional disks, but I can't seem to find that >> > information again. >> > >> > Matthias >> > >> > -- >> > Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ >> > Fedora release 12 (Constantine) - Linux kernel 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64 >> > Load : 0.02 0.04 0.05 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > rhelv5-list mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list >> > >> >> >> > > > -- > Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ > Fedora release 12 (Constantine) - Linux kernel 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64 > Load : 0.32 0.48 0.24 > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > -- RHCE#805007969328369 _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
