This is pretty epic if true. I'm installing some Fail 2008r2 now to check. Is your hypervisor running CentOS 6 or 7? -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS" <centos-virt@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, 9 December, 2015 00:00:28 > Subject: Re: win2008r2 update on centos 6 host made system unbootable > On 09.12.2015 00:39, NightLightHosts Admin wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn >> <dennisml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> today we ran into a strange problem: When performing a regular Windows >>> 2008r2 update apparently among other things the following was installed: >>> "SUSE - Storage Controller - SUSE Block Driver for Windows" >>> >>> Previously the disk drive was using the Red Hat virtio drivers which >>> worked just fine but after the reboot after the update I just get a blue >>> screen indicating that Windows cannot find a boot device. >>> >>> Does anyone understand what is going on here? Why is the windows update >>> installing a Suse driver that overrides the Red Hat driver even though >>> it is apparently incompatible with the system? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Dennis >> >> Did you roll back the driver and did it work after that? > > I can't roll back the driver for that device because I can't boot the > system. The only way I can boot into the system is by changing the disk > type to IDE but then I cannot roll back the driver because the entire > device changed. As far as I can tell the Suse version of the virtio > block driver is incompatible with the incompatible with the system but > right now I see no way to tell windows "Uninstall the driver completely > for the entire system" so that on the next boot it would fall back to > the old virtio driver from Red Hat. > I tried installing the current stable drivers from this URL: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers > > But Windows refuses and says the driver is already up-to-date. > > What worries me is that I want to update other win2008r2 guests as well > but now fear that they will all be rendered unbootable by such an update. > > Regards, > Dennis > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
