Installation guide

Installing drivers during the Windows installation

2. Creating the guest with virsh

This method attaches the para-virtualized driver floppy disk to a Windows guest before the

installation.

If the guest is created from an XML definition file with virsh use the virsh define command

not the virsh create command.

a. Create, but do not start, the guest. Refer to Chapter 30, Managing guests with virsh for

details on creating guests with the virsh command.

b. Add the driver disk as a virtualized floppy disk with the virsh command. This example can

be copied and used if there are no other virtualized floppy devices attached to the virtualized

guest.

# virsh attach-disk guest1 /usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-drivers.vfd fda --type

floppy

3. Creating the guest with virt-manager

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

configuration before install checkbox.