[Users] best disk type for WIn XP guests
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. Gianluca
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.
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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
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