Installation guide

Important

Create the virtual machine, as normal, without starting the virtual machine. Follow one

of the procedures below.

Select one of the following guest-creation methods, and follow the instructions.

a. Creat in g t h e g u est virt u al mach in e wit h virsh

This method attaches the virtio driver floppy disk to a Windows guest before the

installation.

If the virtual machine is created from an XML definition file with vi rsh, use the vi rsh

d efi ne command not the vi rsh create command.

i. Create, but do not start, the virtual machine. Refer to the Red Hat Enterprise

Linux Virtualization Administration Guide for details on creating virtual machines

with the vi rsh command.

ii. Add the driver disk as a virtualized floppy disk with the vi rsh command. This

example can be copied and used if there are no other virtualized floppy

devices attached to the guest virtual machine. Note that vm_name should be

replaced with the name of the virtual machine.

# virsh attach-disk vm_name /usr/share/virtio-

win/virtio-win.vfd fda --type floppy

You can now continue with Step 3.

b. Creat in g t h e g u est virt u al mach in e wit h virt - man ag er an d ch an g in g th e

d isk t ype

i. At the final step of the virt-manager guest creation wizard, check the

C usto mi ze co nfi g urati o n befo re i nstal l checkbox.

⁠Chapt er 1 0 . KVM Para- virt ualiz ed (virt io) Drivers