Hi Richard, The txtsetup.oem file you mentioned was not with your email, I am not sure if you forgot or the mailing list eats attachments. Perhaps you have a URL to the file? It also sounds like a small script would make it easier for everyone to install the drivers. Regards, Anand <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Richard Hughes <<a href="mailto:hughsient@gmail.com">hughsient@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> This may be useful to somebody. To use the virtio drivers in windows XP setup, you have to do the following: * create a 1.44Mb image file * mount it by loopback * format it with vfat * copy the Install/Xp/x86/viostor.sys, Install/Xp/x86/wnet.inf, and the attached txtsetup.oem file to the root of the mounted image * umount the loop device * attach the floppy image as a floppy storage element in the VM's details pane * boot the VM * remember to press F6 when booting the windows xp setup and select the VirtoIO device. The txtsetup.oem was just cobbled together after reading various sources online, and hacking values out of the supplied inf file. Richard. p.s. I'm still unable to install XP using ide, scsi or virtio drivers as it gives the message "Setup was unable to format the partition. The disk maybe damaged." -- any ideas welcome. _______________________________________________ Fedora-virt mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-virt@redhat.com">Fedora-virt@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt</a> </blockquote></div>