My experience is using the vfd file to load the drivers. You can install tools after the completed install. Just the virtio scsi drivers are needed for the initial install.
Server CD and virtio-win-server.vfd I think is the name of it. Eric Evans Digital Data Services LLC. 304.660.9080 From: Alex McWhirter <a...@triadic.us> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2020 12:55 PM To: Shareef Jalloq <shar...@jalloq.co.uk> Cc: Robert Webb <rw...@ropeguru.com>; eev...@digitaldatatechs.com; users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Re: Windows VirtIO drivers I've never had any of these issues... These are my usual windows steps. 1. boot fresh vm into windows ISO image installer. 2. when i get to disk screen (blank because i use VirtIO-SCSI), change windows ISO to ovirt guest tools ISO 3. click load drivers, browse, load VirtIO-SCSI driver from CD, go back to disk screen. 4. swap ovirt guest tools ISO for Windows ISO, click refresh, then install on HDD. 5. when windows boots, swap ISO's again and run the ovirt guest tools installer. Sometimes my mouse breaks at this point, but i can click restart in the admin portal and after that all is well. On 2020-04-02 12:30, Shareef Jalloq wrote: I can't seem to do anything. If I hit the Windows key and start typing, I get a black popup with no options. Win+R doesn't do anything aside from spit out a GSpice critical error in the terminal I'm running remote-viewer from. You spend a week trying to launch a VM and when you do, you can't do nowt. :-) On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 5:24 PM Robert Webb <rw...@ropeguru.com <mailto:rw...@ropeguru.com> > wrote: I have yet to figure that one out. All of the VM's I built I had to go old school with the tab key and arrow keys... Very annoying.. ________________________________________ From: Shareef Jalloq <shar...@jalloq.co.uk <mailto:shar...@jalloq.co.uk> > Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2020 12:21 PM To: eev...@digitaldatatechs.com <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com> Cc: Robert Webb; users@ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Re: Windows VirtIO drivers Any idea what I need to do to get a working mouse in a Windows VM? I can click on the SPICE viewer but the mouse pointer is fixed to the left hand border. On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 4:38 PM Shareef Jalloq <shar...@jalloq.co.uk <mailto:shar...@jalloq.co.uk> <mailto:shar...@jalloq.co.uk <mailto:shar...@jalloq.co.uk> >> wrote: Sorry, I missed all these replies. Thanks for the help. I just noticed something funny in the Windows installer. When you get to the point where it can't find any installation media, if you Load Driver, a popup appears with a Browse and OK/Cancel options. I assumed that I should be browsing to the floppy here but if you do that, you get an error that no signed drivers can be found. Instead, you just have to hit OK when the popup appears and that somehow finds the drivers. I'm assuming that I will need to install the network driver once the installation has finished? On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 8:37 PM <eev...@digitaldatatechs.com <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com> <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com> >> wrote: Ok. Personally, I like having an ISO repository, but I like the fact that's it will be optional. Thanks. Eric Evans Digital Data Services LLC. 304.660.9080 -----Original Message----- From: Robert Webb <rw...@ropeguru.com <mailto:rw...@ropeguru.com> <mailto:rw...@ropeguru.com <mailto:rw...@ropeguru.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 4:26 PM To: eev...@digitaldatatechs.com <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com> <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com> >; 'Shareef Jalloq' <shar...@jalloq.co.uk <mailto:shar...@jalloq.co.uk> <mailto:shar...@jalloq.co.uk <mailto:shar...@jalloq.co.uk> >>; users@ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> <mailto:users@ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Re: Windows VirtIO drivers It does work that way. I found that out as I was testing oVirt and had not created a separate ISO Domain. I believe it was Strahil who pointed me in the right direction. So if one does not have an ISO Domain, it is no longer required. Along with the fact that ISO Domains are or in the process of being deprecated. ________________________________________ From: eev...@digitaldatatechs.com <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com> <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com> > <eev...@digitaldatatechs.com <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com> <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 3:13 PM To: Robert Webb; 'Shareef Jalloq'; users@ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> <mailto:users@ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> > Subject: RE: [ovirt-users] Re: Windows VirtIO drivers That may be true, but in the ISO domain, when you open virt viewer you can change the cd very easily...maybe it works that way as well.. Eric Evans Digital Data Services LLC. 304.660.9080 -----Original Message----- From: Robert Webb <rw...@ropeguru.com <mailto:rw...@ropeguru.com> <mailto:rw...@ropeguru.com <mailto:rw...@ropeguru.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 2:35 PM To: eev...@digitaldatatechs.com <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com> <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com> >; 'Shareef Jalloq' <shar...@jalloq.co.uk <mailto:shar...@jalloq.co.uk> <mailto:shar...@jalloq.co.uk <mailto:shar...@jalloq.co.uk> >>; users@ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> <mailto:users@ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> > Subject: [ovirt-users] Re: Windows VirtIO drivers Don't think you have to use the ISO Domain any longer. You can upload to a Data Domain and when you highlight the VM in the management GUI, select the three dots in the top left for extra options and there is a change cd option. That option will allow for attaching an ISO from a Data Domain. That is what I recall when I was using oVirt a month or so ago. ________________________________________ From: eev...@digitaldatatechs.com <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com> <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com> > <eev...@digitaldatatechs.com <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com> <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com <mailto:eev...@digitaldatatechs.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 2:28 PM To: 'Shareef Jalloq'; users@ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> <mailto:users@ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> > Subject: [ovirt-users] Re: Windows VirtIO drivers You have to copy the iso and vfd files to the ISO domain to make them available to the vm's that need drivers. engine-iso-uploader options list # engine-iso-uploader options upload file file file Documentation is found here: https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/admin-guide/chap-Utilities.html Eric Evans Digital Data Services LLC. 304.660.9080 [cid:image001.jpg@01D602B1.9FEA2EC0] From: Shareef Jalloq <shar...@jalloq.co.uk <mailto:shar...@jalloq.co.uk> <mailto:shar...@jalloq.co.uk <mailto:shar...@jalloq.co.uk> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 1:51 PM To: users@ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> <mailto:users@ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> > Subject: [ovirt-users] Windows VirtIO drivers Hi, it seems the online documentation regarding the windows installation steps is well out of date. Where is there any current documentation on where to get the VirtIO drivers for a Windows installation? >From a bit of Googling, it seems that I need to 'yum install virtio-win' on the engine VM and then copy the relevant .iso/.vfd to the ISO domain. Is that correct? Where is the documentation maintained and how do I open a bug on it? Thanks, Shareef. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org <mailto:users-le...@ovirt.org> Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/INER3JHFDN23FRIK6ED6SRHM4ZBIRZ23/
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