There will be a confirmation that the driver was installed, similar to this one:Ĭlose the dialog and repeat the steps for the other driver.Īfter both drivers are installed, the device manager should contain a Red Hat VirtIO device for the SCSI controller and another one for the ethernet adapter. When prompted, confirm that you want to install the driver. You should be able to let Windows search the CD for the drive. On the next screen, choose the drive for your CDROM. When installation is complete, you should get a confirmation, similar to the following:Īfter repeating the steps for the other driver, you use the Virtio interface on your Windows hard disk image (see After Installing the Drivers…).įor Windows 7, choose Browse my computer for driver software. Select Continue Anyway to install the driver. At this point, choose the one in the wxp directory.Įventually, you will probably be warned that you are installing an unsigned driver. When installing the hard disk controller, you might be prompted, at this point, to choose a driver. On the next set of options, choose Search for the best driver in these locations and ensure that Search removable media is ticked and click on Next again. Installing the Drivers on Windows XPįor Windows XP, choose Install from a list or specific location on the first prompt. It should be fairly easy to work how to install the drivers, but installing the drivers for Windows 7 and Windows XP are here if you need them ( skip to instructions for Windows 7). The dialogs for installing the drivers will vary, depending on the installed version of Windows. In the next dialog, choose to specify a location and install the Red Hat Virtio drivers. On one of the items, right click on it and select Properties, go to the Driver tab.Ĭlick on Update Driver. Under Other Devices, there should be two entries – one for the SCSI controller to the the temporary virtual hard drive and the other for the Virtio network card. When Windows is loaded in your guest VM, go in to the Device Manager. Now, start the Windows VM with the Virtio interfaces: qemu-kvm \ The easiest solution to this problem is to create another virtual disk that can use Virtio: qemu-img create -f qcow2 the virtual hard disk image where Windows is installed on your guest VM) using the Virtio hard disk interface (until the driver is installed, Windows will not know how to use the Virtio hard disk interface). While the Windows guest could be started with the Virtio NIC without any problems, we can not start with the Windows image (i.e. To install them in a Windows guest VM, it must also be started with these interfaces so that Windows can detect them. To use them in a Windows guest VM, the drivers from Fedora (you only need the ISO file) must first be installed into Windows. KVM provides a Virtio interface for the virtual hard disk and NIC.
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