I also forgot to mention - we also add these lines into our agent.properties
file on the KVM hosts so that we get better display resolution and use virtio
for the graphics driver
vm.video.ram=65536
vm.video.hardware=virtio
and of course the virtio drivers and qemu agent are installed into all of our
Windows templates
Gary Dixon
Quadris Cloud Manager
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-Original Message-
From: Francisco Arencibia Quesada
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2024 11:51 AM
To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: Windows templates KVM
Hi Gary,
Yes we are using cloud-init and in our case we are removing the recovery
partition, with XCP templates all good, now we are testing the same with KVM.
Thank you for your feedback :)
Regards
On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 12:48 PM Gary Dixon
wrote:
> Hi Fransisco
>
> Be careful if you are building Windows 11 or Wiindows Server 2022
> templates as Microsoft have changed the default OS partitioning - they
> have put the recovery partition at the end of the disk..
>
> We build these initially from ISO so we can add a 1Gb partition - this
> then gives us the opportunity after the VM is built to re-arrange the
> OS partitions without losing the recovery partition but also allows us
> to 'resize' the C drive later on if we ever need to - you can find
> more detailed info here
> https://supe/
> ruser.com%2Fquestions%2F1453790%2Fhow-to-move-the-recovery-partition-o
> n-windows-10&data=05%7C02%7CGary.Dixon%40quadris.co.uk%7Cf0c2f74a25204
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> It can also be useful to install cloudbase-init in your windows
> template which will give you more provisioning functinality
>
> Gary Dixon
> Quadris Cloud Manager
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> From: Francisco Arencibia Quesada
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2024 11:35 AM
> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: Windows templates KVM
>
> Good morning guys,
>
> Is there any updated guide to build windows templates for KVM? I have
> one but I'm just checking with you guys the best approach. It is also
> required to install virtio drivers and qemu guest agent right?
>
> I have found the latest version of both, is this enough?
>
>
> https://fedo/
> rapeople.org%2Fgroups%2Fvirt%2Fvirtio-win%2Fdirect-downloads%2Farchive
> -virtio%2Fvirtio-win-0.1.248-1%2F&data=05%7C02%7CGary.Dixon%40quadris.
> co.uk%7Cf0c2f74a25204a14834108dc7596172c%7Cf1d6abf3d3b44894ae16db0fb93
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>
>
> https://fedo/
> rapeople.org%2Fgroups%2Fvirt%2Fvirtio-win%2Fdirect-downloads%2Farchive
> -qemu-ga%2Fqemu-ga-win-107.0.1-1.el9%2F&data=05%7C02%7CGary.Dixon%40qu
> adris.co.uk%7Cf0c2f74a25204a14834108dc7596172c%7Cf1d6abf3d3b44894ae16d
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>
>
> Regards
> Thanks in advance :)
> --
> *Francisco Arencibia Quesada.*
> *DevOps Engineer*
>
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*Francisco Arencibia Quesada.*
*DevOps Engineer*
