Re: [Qemu-devel] Help for backport virtio to older kernel 2.6.18

[Halsey Pian]

Best Regards
Halsey Pian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Halsey Pian [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 2015年3月31日 19:48
> To: 'Stefan Hajnoczi'
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] Help for backport virtio to older kernel 2.6.18
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: 2015年3月30日 23:33
> > To: Halsey Pian
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Help for backport virtio to older kernel
> > 2.6.18
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 04:25:50PM +0800, Halsey Pian wrote:
> > > It seems that virtio disk driver is included in kernel version
> > > started from 2.6.32, but for 2.6.18 (using redhat5 as VM), we have
> > > to backport  the virtio  driver. And I found that there is a link in
> link below,
> > but cannot be opened.  Could you provide help on it?
> >
> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 guests support virtio devices.  You should
> > not need to compile or backport anything for virtio-net or
> virtio-
> > blk.
> >
> > Please refer to the official documentation and support channels:
> > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux
> > /5/html/Virtualization/index.html
> 
> > Stefan
> 
> [Halsey] thanks for your info, Stefan. I would check it.
> 
> Halsey

Stefan,  Redhat 5 does support virtio block, but for other Linux distributions 
with kernel < 2.6.25 no virtio support, we also need
backport virtio if we want to use it. 
I checked the link for backport it in KVM website, still cannot be found. Would 
you have some info for it? Thanks! 

 [Halsey]