Thank you Rene, greatly appreciated.

I'm using the Server 2012 R2 Standard edition and at this point I haven't even got a NIC added to the VM.

Another piece of info which might be useful (or not) is I'm using a FC SAN for storage, not sure if this would have any affect.

Thanks. Regards. Neil Wilson. On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 2:42 PM, René Koch <rkoch(a)linuxland.at&gt; wrote: > Hi Neil, > > I'll test Windows Server 2012 R2 again with IDE and VirtIO disks (and e1000 > and VirtIO network cards) with VirtIO-drivers from RHEL channel and drivers > bundles with spice guest agent and will let you know the results. Please > keep in mind that it will take some time... > Btw, I will use Windows 2012 R2 english, 180-days trial... > > > Regards, > René > > > > On 05/28/2014 01:11 PM, Neil wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> >> Is anyone able to assist here? I still can't install 2012 R2, whether >> I use IDE, virtio, or virtio-scsi, I don't see a drive during the >> first install. >> >> I've tried the "virtio-win-1.6.8/vioserial/2k12R2/amd64" as a test and >> this also doesn't work, so it doesn't seem like a driver issue, more >> of a cluster issue. >> >> I've also tried changing my Datacenter compatibility and Cluster to >> 3.4, but this seemed to make no difference. Both my hosts are upgraded >> to Centos 6.5 all updates, as well as my ovirt and VDSM is updated to >> the latest stable 3.4 packages. >> >> I'm at a loss here, but desperately need to get this R2 installed. >> >> Further to what Paul mentioned below, this was upgraded from 3.1 so it >> doesn't just appear to happen to new 3.4 installs. >> >> Any help is greatly appreciated. >> >> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Neil <nwilson123(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >>> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> Thanks for the replies. >>> >>> What's strange is that even when choosing an IDE disk I don't see any >>> hard drive showing up when I try to install 2012R2, is this normal? I >>> can understand why R2 won't see the virtio scsi disk, but to me it >>> should be showing up when using IDE, or am I wrong here? >>> >>> I see that in the virtio drivers from RHEL supplementary there is a >>> folder "virtio-win-1.6.8/vioserial/2k12R2/amd64" but the license seems >>> to indicate that you need a valid subscription in order to use these >>> drivers... if this is true then is no one using server 2012 R2 on >>> oVirt without a valid subscription? >>> >>> I see with the drivers from >>> "http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/src/" >>> there is only a Win8 driver, and trying to use this on my 2012 R2 >>> doesn't find a matching driver. >>> >>> Can anyone clarify this from Redhat? If you using RHEV, presumably you >>> can use R2, but it seems using oVirt you aren't allowed to? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Regards. >>> >>> Neil Wilson. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Paul.LKW <paul.lkw(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi guys: >>>> Please do not just say your one is working it is helpless in fact there >>>> already some guys reported issues in Win platform (including me) and >>>> there >>>> is no way to report that, do your think paid version in Redhat would be >>>> the >>>> same or the client will already fxxked. >>>> I noted this seems occured only in newly installed ovirt and old >>>> installation is fine. >>>> >>>> Paul.LKW >>>> >>>> 於 2014/5/23 下午11:02，"Neil" <nwilson123(a)gmail.com&gt; 寫道： >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi guys, >>>>> >>>>> I've been trying to install 2012 R2 onto my ovirt 3.4 but no matter >>>>> what I do, it either doesn't find an IDE drive or a Virtio drive (when >>>>> using the virtio ISO). >>>>> >>>>> ovirt-engine-lib-3.4.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-engine-restapi-3.4.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-ovirt-engine-3.4.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-engine-3.4.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-websocket-proxy-3.4.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-host-deploy-java-1.2.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-engine-cli-3.2.0.10-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-engine-setup-3.4.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-host-deploy-1.2.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-engine-backend-3.4.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-image-uploader-3.4.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-engine-tools-3.4.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-engine-sdk-python-3.4.0.7-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal-3.4.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-engine-setup-base-3.4.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-iso-uploader-3.4.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-engine-userportal-3.4.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-log-collector-3.4.1-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-engine-websocket-proxy-3.4.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-ovirt-engine-common-3.4.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> ovirt-engine-dbscripts-3.4.0-1.el6.noarch >>>>> >>>>> vdsm-4.14.6-0.el6.x86_64 >>>>> vdsm-xmlrpc-4.14.6-0.el6.noarch >>>>> vdsm-cli-4.14.6-0.el6.noarch >>>>> vdsm-python-zombiereaper-4.14.6-0.el6.noarch >>>>> vdsm-python-4.14.6-0.el6.x86_64 >>>>> >>>>> qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.8.x86_64 >>>>> qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.8.x86_64 >>>>> qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.8.x86_64 >>>>> gpxe-roms-qemu-0.9.7-6.9.el6.noarch >>>>> >>>>> Is there a special trick to get this working, or could something be >>>>> wrong? When it comes to creating a guest I don't see a Server 2012 R2 >>>>> 64bit in the drop down list? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> Regards. >>>>> >>>>> Neil Wilson. >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Users mailing list >>>>> Users(a)ovirt.org >>>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >