Bug 621052

Summary:	latest virtio-win has PV block driver support for winxp 32bit
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Sadique Puthen <sputhenp>
Component:	doc-Virtualization_Guide	Assignee:	Scott Radvan <sradvan>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
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Priority:	low
Version:	5.5	CC:	rlandman
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Description Sadique Puthen 2010-08-04 06:23:21 UTC

Description of problem:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5/html/Virtualization_Guide/chap-Virtualization-KVM_restrictions_and_support.html

Windows XP 32-Bit Optimized with para-virtualized drivers (network driver only)

As of virtio-win-1.0.0-11.45801.el5 released with RHEL5.5, 32 bit winxp supports both network and block PV drivers.

SO (network driver only) need to be removed.

Related Bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545737

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582343

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Comment 2 Michael Doyle 2010-12-07 04:37:44 UTC

Verified in Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Virtualization-5-en-US-5.6-04