If you want to run the Windows 8 Beta on RHEL 6 you need the `virtio-win` package installed. You can get it by subscribing to the “Supplementary” RHN channel.
Silly me. I thought I could just download the Windows 8 Beta and install it on a virtual machine with RHEL 6. Instead I kept getting an error message about a missing DVD driver. Since I wasn’t sure if this was a Windows problem or a `virt-manager` problem I filed bug #809160. From that I learned about virtio-win.
Windows 8 DVD driver error
Install `virtio-win` and restart `virt-manager` and everything should work as expected. Note, you must be subscribed to the `supplementary` RHN channel where this package is located.
$ su -c 'yum install virtio-win'
If you think trying to find the power off button on Gnome3 is frustrating, Windows 8 takes things to new unintuitive heights.
I believe that you need similar packages for Fedora, though I am not sure if they are provided by yum or what you have to do. Has anyone installed the Windows 8 Beta on Fedora and if so, did you have to do anything special with `virt-manager` to make it work?
August 18, 2013 at 12:17 pm
I am having the same problem on f18 trying to install win8 64 bit. I’ve tried installing http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/virtio-win-0.1-65.iso. Win8 finds two drivers for AMD: ballon and virtio. But the install process never completes. It keeps asking for a driver. Any ideas?
August 18, 2013 at 12:57 pm
All I can think is to try the 32bit version Windows 8 instead and see if that behaves any differently. I believe that is the version of the beta I tried to isntall, but it’s so long ago I can’t remember.
August 27, 2013 at 11:43 pm
Solved. I had to burn the Windows ISO and install from a DVD.
June 6, 2012 at 8:14 pm
you can get virtio-win for fedora here
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/