Hi Marty, What Simon has mentioned below.. Use the "Windows PV" option for your template.
Thanks Prashanth ________________________________ From: Simon Weller <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 2:54 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: KVM Drivers for Windows VMs Marty, See if there is a "Windows PV" OS option for the template. On Tue, Nov 4, 2025, 8:52 PM Simon Weller <[email protected]> wrote: > Marty, > > See if there is a "Windows PV" OS option for the template. > > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2025, 5:43 PM Marty Godsey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thank you, Prashanth. >> >> I am attempting to create a template and I am having a time getting the >> NIC to be the Redhat VirtIO driver. It keeps wanting to use the E1000 NIC. >> I do not have any exclamation points in the device manager. All of the >> drivers are installed. All the other things are there such as the ballot >> drivers, etc. It is still using the QEMU disk, but that's because I have >> not changed it yet, since this is a template in creation. >> >> I have looked through the settings in Cloudstack and do not see where I >> can specify this. I have tried the Windows 2022 template with Server 2022 >> and the 2025 template with 2025. >> >> Am I missing something in my agent.properties file or something else? >> >> >> *From: *Prashanth Reddy <[email protected]> >> *Date: *Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM >> *To: *[email protected] <[email protected]> >> *Subject: *Re: KVM Drivers for Windows VMs >> >> WARNING: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not >> click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know >> the content is safe. >> >> >> Hi Marty, >> >> Everything you listed looks good. >> >> You can add qemu-guest-agent if you plan to take storage-based instance >> snapshots >> https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/adminguide/virtual_machines.html#storage-based-instance-snapshots-on-kvm >> >> You can skip SR-IOV driver as there is no support for SR-IOV with KVM in >> Cloudstack AFAIK >> >> Thanks >> Prashanth >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Marty Godsey <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 7:27 AM >> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> Subject: KVM Drivers for Windows VMs >> >> Hello, >> >> I am creating my template for KVM for Windows, and I wanted to ask about >> the virt drivers. >> >> I know I need to add things like the local disk drivers, balloon driver, >> NIC, etc. But what else should be included? Should I add the SR-IOV driver? >> The guest-agent? >> >> This is my first KVM cluster. I appreciate the guidance. >> >> Marty >> >>
