[ovirt-users] oVirt virtio drivers for fedora 5

Yaniv Kaul ykaul at redhat.com
Wed Dec 27 13:24:58 UTC 2017


On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Anantha Raghava <
raghav at exzatechconsulting.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have converted a very old fedora 5 server to run on oVirt. However,
> since the Fedora 5 does not have virtio drivers, or virtio-scsi drivers,
> the disks are connected to virtual IDE interface. The problem here is on a
> single IDE interface, we cannot connect more than 2 disks. But the old
> converted server had 4 disks on 2 IDE controllers.
>
> First question is can we add one more virtual IDE Controller to the VM? If
> yes, please share the procedure. Or whether any one can share the proper
> virtio or virtio scsi for fedora 5 OS drivers so that we can get other two
> inactive disks working.
>
> Unfortunately we cannot upgrade from Fedora 5 at the moment.
>

Neither are possible. Does the Fedora have an iSCSI initiator support
perhaps? You can expose those disk via different VMs to that VM - but still
it might look different to the OS.
(We don't even support such an old OS - but if it works, great).
Y.

Await your inputs.
>
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>
>
> Anantha Raghava
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