LXer: Virtio install Windows 7 KVM (x64/x86) on Fedora 14
 

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Fedora 14 has version of Libvirt 0.8.7 and qemu-0.13.0-1 installed via Rawhide Preview Repo. However, straightforward attemptto virt-install Windows 7 on virtio boot device fails to detect device after viostor.sys gets preloaded. It’s a known bug [1]. Actually, thread at Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 656353 contains required patch , but doesn’t contain any explanation how to rebuild and reinstall required package python-virtinst-0.500.4-1.fc14.noarch.rpm.Detailed workaround for this issue follows bellow.

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