[et-mgmt-tools] Installing RHEL 2 (yes, "*2*") inside a F9 KVM VM...

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Aug 14 22:15:57 UTC 2008


On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 05:55:51PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Michael DeHaan wrote:
> > I'm finding that RHEL 2 (last dot release) does not seem to have a 
> > virtual NIC of the type that Anaconda can discover.
> > 
> > Has anyone tested EL2, and if so, should I be sending something extra 
> > down to python virtinst for that?
> > 
> > --Michael
> > 
> 
> Actually I just committed some work to virtinst that may help solve
> this issue.
> 
> Try running qemu-kvm manually and testing out the -nic models. Try
> 'qemu-kvm -hda /any/old/file -net nic,model=?' to see a list of the
> available ones. See if you can find a model that works, and we can
> trivially put it in the virtinst os database. So if someone in
> the future tries

I've got to imagine that the ne2k NIC wil do the job, though I'm kinda
suprised there's no rtl8139 support.

> virt-install --os-type linux --os-variant rhel2.1 --blah ...
> 
> We can automatically set the correct network model.

Excellant - I assume you've got that setup to use VirtIO for F9/10
and Ubuntu Hardy ?

Daniel
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