Ok, I have found were to force the controller type for a VM Set this is the user_vm_details table
idvm_idnamevaluedisplay 3625201rootDiskControllervirtio1 My issue now is slipstreaming the windows ISO and the operating system bcdedit /set detecthal Boolean 1 isnt working for me Thanks Adam -----Original Message----- From: Adam Witwicki <awitwi...@oakfordis.com> Sent: 21 September 2018 09:31 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: Disk controller type ** This mail originated from OUTSIDE the Oakford corporate network. Treat hyperlinks and attachments in this email with caution. ** Andrija, I have something weird, I have a template which uses the OS type of Windows Server 2016 (64-bit), this was imported into Cloudstack and this template uses a VirtIO controller I have another template that was created from a disk also with OS type of Windows Server 2016 (64-bit) but has an ID controller. I am trying to work out why this happened and now I can make the disk template always select the VirtIO controller. Setting the instance to windows PV causes BSOD on boot, well before hal can be redetected Thanks Adam -----Original Message----- From: Andrija Panic <andrija.pa...@gmail.com> Sent: 20 September 2018 11:18 To: users <users@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: Re: Disk controller type ** This mail originated from OUTSIDE the Oakford corporate network. Treat hyperlinks and attachments in this email with caution. ** Sooo... here is my experience: if using correct VirtIO OS TYPE (set on template/VM) - i.e. ubuntu 14.04, Centos 6.x or 7.x, Windows PV, other PV (but NOT centos 6.0 or 7.0 - these "dot zero" versions are NOT virtio at least in ACS 4.8), then when VM is STARTED FROM ACS (power on VM) - all drives should be attached as VirtIO. BUT if you do same as above, then additionally create and HOTPLUG new drives/volumes to KVM - it will be IDE - some strange default behavior during hotplug action.... just stop VM/start and it will become VirtIO again... In order to "troubleshoot" these instances - you need to be careful to which OS TYPE was the instance set to (this is inherited from TEMPLATE, if you used some template - but it CAN be changed on an deployed&&stopped instance) In case you plan to i.e. move your Windows instances from IDE to VirtIO - be aware that it might fail miserably, and OS will fail to boot - but there is a fix with *"* bcdedit /set detecthal boolean (where boolean is one of 1, on, yes or true) " after which Windows will detect HAL again and boot just fine. Let me know if more help needed Cheers On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 at 11:22, Adam Witwicki <awitwi...@oakfordis.com> wrote: > > > It looks like I can just add > > rootDiskController virtio > > To the templates settings tab? > > Can anyone confirm? > > Thanks > > Adam > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ivan Kudryavtsev <kudryavtsev...@bw-sw.com> > Sent: 20 September 2018 10:20 > To: users <users@cloudstack.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Disk controller type > > ** This mail originated from OUTSIDE the Oakford corporate network. > Treat hyperlinks and attachments in this email with caution. ** > > Rakesh, It doesn't work like that for CS as it uses stateless XML configs. > > чт, 20 сент. 2018 г., 16:12 Rakesh Venkatesh <www.rakeshv....@gmail.com>: > > > I think you can change the controller type in XML file of the VM but > > not sure if that works or not. > > > > virsh dumpxml <vm name> > > virsh edit <vm name|domain> > > change the controller type, save and start the vm again > > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 9:59 AM Adam Witwicki > > <awitwi...@oakfordis.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have a number of of instances using the wrong controller type > > > (ATA) > > does > > > anyone know where this is set in the database so I can start them > > > with > > the > > > VirtIO scsi controller? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Adam > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Disclaimer Notice: > > > This email has been sent by Oakford Technology Limited, while we > > > have checked this e-mail and any attachments for viruses, we can > > > not guarantee that they are virus-free. 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