You can stop the vm, change the OS type to "Windows PV" and then start the vm.
-Wei On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 at 11:17, <m...@swen.io> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I am kind of new to use KVM for Windows VMs and run into some problems. > > I used an English template for Windows Server 2022 and installed a VM > successfully via Cloudstack. Everything looks good and the NIC is working > Intel PRO 1000 emulation. > > As far as I understand you need to install the VirtIO driver to get a > better > performance from your VM. I downloaded the ISO from: > > https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/stable-virt > io/virtio-win.iso > <https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/stable-virtio/virtio-win.iso> > > And installed them inside the Windows Sever VM successfully. But even after > a reboot of the VM it looks like it is still using the emulated Intel PRO > 1000 NIC and also QEMU ATA drivers for disk access. > > > > Did I miss something? Do I need to install anything on the KVM host, too? > Performance is very poor inside the Wind VM. > > > > Thx for any help! > > > > Regards, > > Swen > >
