Re: [Users] best disk type for WIn XP guests
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote:
On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 06:17:16 PM Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a WIn XP guest configured with one ide disk.
> I would like to pass to virtio. Is it supported/usable for Win XP as a
> disk type on oVirt?
> What else are using other ones in case, apart IDE?
> My attempt is to add a second 1Gb disk configured as virtio and then
> if successful change disk type for the first disk too.
> But when powering up the guest it finds new hardware for the second
> disk, I point it to the directory
> WXP\X86 of the iso using virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd
>
> It finds the viostor.xxx files but at the end it fails installing the
> driver (see
> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mvMUQ2SWxYZWhSV0E/edit
> )
>
> Any help/suggestion is welcome.
Error code 39 means that OS cannot load the device driver.
On 32 bit platforms it usually happens with corrupted installation
media or platform/architecture mismatch.
Vadim.
Actually, despite on what I wrote, I was trying to use the files on CD
iso: virtio-win-0.1-49.iso
under the WXP\X86 directory. And it seems they are not good
Instead if I correctly use files on floppy image virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd
under i386/WinXP directory, it lets me coplete driver installation and
convert boot IDE disk into VirtIO
Thanks
Gianluca