[Users] virt-io drivers for windows xp

[David Jaša]

Mario Giammarco píše v St 16. 10. 2013 v 05:51 +0000:
> Martijn Grendelman <martijn.grendelman at ...> writes:
> 
> 
> > I have been playing with the VirtIO drivers from mentioned ISO on
> > Windows XP, but I experienced a lot of BSODs.
> > 
> > In the end, I set NICs to emulate as rtl8139 and disks as IDE, and that
> > seems to work.
> > 
> Many thanks,
> infact during creation of windows vm I have chosen the "windows" option in
> vm wizard. 
> I cannot guess that the wizard made a "strange" choice using virtio drivers
> when for windows is best to use ide and rtl.

The choice is not strange given:
1) availability of virtual floppy with virtio drivers
2) dreadful performance of emulated devices compared to virtio ones

The minor annoyance during installation (need to attach a floppy and do
F6/Load Drivers) really pays off.

David

> Anyway with spice display mouse is unusable so I must use vnc (with windows
> 7 mouse works)
> 
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