Usually I add a small disk of type virtio and another NIC (also virtio).
Then if you install , you set the windows DVD as bootable and once you reach the moment to select your disk , you have an option to search in a DVD for drivers.
Then you go to Admin Portal , select your VM and from the 3 dots (up right, next to the "Create snapshot" use the "Change CD" to load the DVD iso with the tools.

I think that the rpm "ovirt-guest-tools-iso" is providing that (but I don't remember it).

Once you  have the DVD loaded, just browse and install the drivers from it.
When you complete that, "Change CD" again to the Windows Install iso and select the disk you want to install your Windows.

Best Regards,
Strahil Nikolov


В вторник, 3 декември 2019 г., 16:15:38 ч. Гринуич+2, Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva@indiqus.com> написа:


Anyone, please let me know. Really stuck at this point.

 

I am using Ovirt Manager 4.3 and while installing Windows VMs If I used disk type as IDE, I can see the disks to install the OS but if I use virtIO-scsi for disks the disk is not seen. So I attached floppy disk to VM, but it says no drivers detected.

 

Can anyone let me know the best way to install Windows 2016?

 

Thanks

 

Vijay Sachdeva

 

 

From: Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva@indiqus.com>
Date: Tuesday, 3 December 2019 at 6:56 PM
To: Gal Zaidman <gzaidman@redhat.com>, <users@ovirt.org>
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Windows VirtIO drivers

 

Hi Gal,

 

I have downloaded the virtio-win_x86.vfd  and uploaded to ISO domain. Used Run Once and attached the floppy drive, while looking for drivers in A drive it gives below error:

 

cid:image001.png@01D5AA0B.6CC4D9E0

 

I followed all the steps as per the guidelines shared in the document. Don’t know what I am missing.

 

Thanks

 

Vijay Sachdeva

 

 

From: Gal Zaidman <gzaidman@redhat.com>
Date: Tuesday, 3 December 2019 at 6:44 PM
To: Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva@indiqus.com>, <users@ovirt.org>
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Windows VirtIO drivers

 

Going back to the user list, just in case it will be relevant to others

 

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:02 PM Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva@indiqus.com> wrote:

Hi Gal,

 

Thank you so much for replying, can you please a steps to do that. Right now what I am doing is:

 

  1. Installed Windows 2016 using IDE interface, but performance is very bad and it’ really hard to install any further .exe into it.

 

I never used the IDE interface so I can't say from personal experience, but I don't think that should be the behavior, please open a bug on that so that we can examin.

 

  1.  
  2. Other option I see attaching the floppy drive when we use “Run Once”, but problem is when pointing to floppy drive while loading drivers. It says no drivers detected.

 

Make sure that you attach the latest virtio-win vdf (the link I sent earlier should be ok) and select the relevant drivers, if there is a problem then please open a bug on virtio-win project and send me the url so I will track it, thanks.

 

 

Please share let me know the best way to perform this action as need to deliver the Ovirt infra to one of my customer and really stuck on this driver installation.

 

Appreciate your quick response.!!

 

Vijay Sachdeva

 

 

From: Gal Zaidman <gzaidman@redhat.com>
Date: Tuesday, 3 December 2019 at 6:22 PM
To: Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva@indiqus.com>
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Windows VirtIO drivers

 

HI Vijay,

 

There a package on fedora:

virtio-win-0.1.173-2

which contains an MSI installer for the drivers and the ovirt agent (which is disabled on a normal installation, so please enable it when you install).

 

This installer should replace the ovirt-wgt that we have currently on the next versions,

and it is new, so please give us feedback once you used it.

 

P.S

the installer installs the drivers normally so if the regular drivers from virtio-win fail to install, then using the installer will not change much probably, and it means that you have a deeper problem.

In case the installation fails then please generate logs but running the installer through cmd.exe "msiexec /i {installer} /l*v {path to log}" (https://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/qa-log.html)

and open a bug/reply here and I will try and help

 

Thanks

 

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 2:11 PM Vijay Sachdeva <vijay.sachdeva@indiqus.com> wrote:

Dear Team,

 

How can we install virtIO windows drivers to Windows 2016. As of now I tried to attach floppy drive with virtio-win.vfd image but while installing drivers didn’t get loaded.

 

Please guide or let me know the proper way to install drivers.

 

 

Vijay Sachdeva

 

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