[libvirt-users] XP and virtio

[Sven Schwedas]

On 2014-07-31 20:05, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>       So I need to create a XP vm. I am using lvm logical volumes for
> its disk, so I am using virtio. I got the iso in
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/images/,
> but how do I feed it to the XP install? I did try to mount it as a
> floppy and it hung there on "please wait"; I guess that means it did
> not like a 70MB iso as its floppy. But it also does not seem to want
> to look for the drivers if I mount the .iso as a CD. What else can I
> try?

XP cannot read drivers from additional CDs. You either have to integrate
them into the installer with nLite or similar tools, or copy them to a
floppy format recognized by XP (whatever that would be).


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