Bug 612537

Summary:	Option only available in RHEL described
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora Documentation	Reporter:	Steven Moix <steven.moix>
Component:	virtualization-guide	Assignee:	Michael Hideo <mhideo>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
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Version:	devel	CC:	david, eric, kwade, stickster
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Description Steven Moix 2010-07-08 13:21:17 UTC

Description of problem:
Chapter 12.1 of http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Virtualization_Guide/chap-Virtualization-KVM_Para_virtualized_Drivers.html is exactly the same as chapter 12.1 of the RHEL 5.5 guide http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5/html/Virtualization_Guide/chap-Virtualization-KVM_Para_virtualized_Drivers.html

The problem is that the "yum install virtio-win" step is RHEL-specific as you need to be subscribed to RHN to ave access to it. So basically the whole guide on how to install KVM drivers in Windows guests is useless and wrong ;)

So 2 questions show up:
1) Correct the guide :p
2) Is there any way of getting these driver in Fedora, or is it really only RHEL specific.

Thanks

Comment 1 Christopher Curran 2010-07-09 00:40:22 UTC

Hi Steven,

The chapter is much the same because it was a port in an effort to fully open source our docs. As it was a big task very few chapters have been verified for Fedora. Thankyou for your feedback.

virtio-win has various issues with acceptance into Fedora. There are some license issues at the moment (that is, the source cannot fully be open and is therefore not allowed in fedora). I'll remove the line for now, but I'll leave the chapter because eventually it should work. The eventual Fedora package may not be signed by MS which will prevent it from running on certain versions of Windows.

As for getting the virtio-win drivers installed, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux package should work. I've got it working before using the drivers for RHEV in fedora. You may need a newer version of KVM to get it working (the one from rawhide is usually better/more stable than the kvm in the updates repo). I'm sorry to say, there isn't really a better solution at this time.

I'll make the change and get it updated.

Chris

Comment 3 David Nalley 2010-10-11 13:10:18 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 578960 ***