[Users] windows 8 guest support

[Ronen Hod]

On 01/16/2013 05:38 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 01/16/2013 05:31 PM, Jithin Raju wrote:
>> Hi Itamar,
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> 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).
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Win8 support is premature, and we are still working on it. We will publish the drivers as usual once the drivers are ready.

Ronen.

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>> Thanks,
>> Jithin
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>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
>> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>>     On 01/16/2013 02:14 PM, Jithin Raju wrote:
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>>         Hi All,
>>
>>         Windows 8 guest is supported in ovirt?
>>         Any plan since it has some issues with qemu sata support.
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>>     can you please elaborate on the issue?
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