<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi All I looked at this page for reference to using virtio drivers on KVM guests. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio">http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio</a> In the requirements section it is mentioned that we need a virtio compatible guest with kernel >= 2.6.25 One of my guest has this version: [root@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I was still able to use the virtio drivers by enabling the corresponding options in the qemu xml file and also i created a new initrd image file inside my guest using the mkinitrd command as mentioned in the link provided above. My question is , Is it fine to use the virtio drivers with the kernel that i have for my guest or i definitely need to get to kernel version >= 2.6.25 ? Thanks Jatin </body> </html>