faking vendor-id to guest for driver-install-triggering?

DISCUSSION Oliver Rath 2 participants 2 messages Apr 27, 2011 – Apr 28, 2011 KVM

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Oliver Rath

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2011-04-27 13:19 UTC #0 lore raw

Hi there,

is it possible to announce the kvm-guest (i.e. winxp) some arbitrary vendor-id's in a way, that the win-client starts to install the driver for this "card"?

I.e. the RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Card has the vendor-id 10ec:8168 (taken from lspci -nn), so if i give this ID to the kvm-guest, he should install the driver for this card.

Tfh!

Oliver

Avi Kivity

2011-04-28 08:12 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 9 lines · Oliver Rath

Hi there,
is it possible to announce the kvm-guest (i.e. winxp) some arbitrary vendor-id's in a way, that the win-client starts to install the driver for this "card"?
I.e. the RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Card has the vendor-id 10ec:8168 (taken from lspci -nn), so if i give this ID to the kvm-guest, he should install the driver for this card.

It isn't possible without some hacking.

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