Re: [Users] windows 8 guest support

On 01/16/2013 05:31 PM, Jithin Raju wrote: > Hi Itamar, > > I tried installing windows8 enterprise 32 bit as ovirt guest but > bootloader failed to load with error 0x00005d . > host machine support vt & vt-d. > Same thing is happening while installing windows 8 in centos 6.2 host. > windows8 is not listed in guest support option in ovirt 3.1/rhel 6.3. > > some google results showed that its because windows 8 is not supporting > IDE. > There is no option for sata controller in any of the above > virtualization solutions. > If its happening due to some other thing could you please let me know > the how to make it work. > first, please open a bug for not allowing IDE device for windows 8 (2012?) OSs (since 3.2 added them to list of OSs). second, ronen - are there community available virtio-block drivers for windows 8 Jithin can try to install with? (Jithin, you would need to attach a virtual floppy (vfd) to the guest during guest OS install to provide it with the driver). > > Thanks, > Jithin > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com > <mailto:iheim@redhat.com>> wrote: > > On 01/16/2013 02:14 PM, Jithin Raju wrote: > > Hi All, > > Windows 8 guest is supported in ovirt? > Any plan since it has some issues with qemu sata support. > > > can you please elaborate on the issue? > > >