2014-07-23

Installing Win7 guest on KVM with CentOS 7

Installation with virt-manager is fairly straightforward. However, unfortunately, this results in a guest that uses the very slow IDE disk driver. Changing to use virtio is a little tricky - this blog post was very helpful: http://setdosa.blogspot.com/2013/09/moving-your-windows-guest-from-ide-to.html

This is a general handy guide: 
https://support.opennodecloud.com/wiki/doku.php?id=usrdoc:os:win-guest