Recommended network driver for a windows KVM guest

DISCUSSION carlopmart 2 participants 2 messages Feb 17, 2010 – Feb 18, 2010 KVM

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2010-02-17 10:52 UTC #0 lore raw

Hi all,

I need to install several windows KVM (rhel5.4 host fully updated) guests for
iSCSI boot. iSCSI servers are Solaris/OpenSolaris storage servers and I need to boot windows guests (2008R2 and Win7) using gpxe. Can i use virtio net dirver during windows install or e1000 driver??

Many thanks.

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2010-02-18 08:22 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 6 lines · carlopmart

Hi all,
I need to install several windows KVM (rhel5.4 host fully updated) guests for iSCSI boot. iSCSI servers are Solaris/OpenSolaris storage servers and I need to boot windows guests (2008R2 and Win7) using gpxe. Can i use virtio net dirver during windows install or e1000 driver??

rhel5.4 does not have gpxe so it won't work. rhel5.5 will have such but I don't recall someone testing iScsi with kvm+gpxe on upstream too, worth testing.

Anyway, virtio performs better than e1000 and potentially more stable than it.

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Many thanks.