Maybe you can find some useful hints in this thread: http://www.proxmox.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1990 Best Regards, Martin > -----Original Message----- > From: kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Asdo > Sent: Mittwoch, 14. Oktober 2009 19:52 > To: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Can't make virtio block driver work on Windows 2003 > > Hi all > I have a new installation of Windows 2003 SBS server 32bit which I > installed using IDE disk. > KVM version is QEMU PC emulator version 0.10.50 (qemu-kvm-devel-86) > compiled by myself on kernel 2.6.28-11-server. > > I have already moved networking from e1000 to virtio (e1000 was > performing very sluggishly btw, probably was losing many packets, > virtio > seems to work) > > Now I want to move the disk to virtio... > > This is complex so I thought that first I wanted to see virtio > installed > and working on another drive. > So I tried adding another drive, a virtio one, (a new 100MB file at > host > side) to the virtual machine and rebooting. > > A first problem is that Windows does not detect the new device upon > boot > or Add Hardware scan. > > Here is the kvm commandline (it's complex because it comes from > libvirt): > > /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -S -M pc -m 4096-smp 4 -name > winserv2 -uuid xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -monitor pty -boot > c > -drive > file=/virtual_machines/kvm/nfsimport/winserv2.raw,if=ide,index=0,boot=o > n > -drive file=/virtual_machines/kvm/nfsimport/zerofile,if=virtio,index=1 > -net nic,macaddr=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx,vlan=0,model=virtio -net > tap,fd=25,vlan=0 -serial none -parallel none -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:4 > > Even if Windows couldn't detect the new device I tried to install the > driver anyway. On Add Hardware I go through to --> SCSI and RAID > controllers --> Have Disk .. and point it to the location of viostor > files (windows 2003 x86) downloaded from: > > http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers > http://people.redhat.com/~yvugenfi/24.09.2009/viostor.zip > > Windows does install the driver, however at the end it says: > > The software for this device is now installed, but may not work > correctly. > This device cannot start. (Code 10) > > and the new device gets flagged with a yellow exclamation mark in > Device > Manager. > > I don't know if it's the same reason as before, that the device is not > detected so the driver cannot work, or another reason. > > Any idea? > > Thanks for your help > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
