RE: Can't make virtio block driver work on Windows 2003

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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
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