[Users] windows 8 guest support

[Itamar Heim]

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 at redhat.com
> <mailto:iheim at 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?
>
>