[ovirt-users] Problem installing windows 2008 sp2 and windows 2012 server standard

[Michal Skrivanek]

On Nov 11, 2014, at 22:43 , wodel youchi <wodel_doom at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
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> Ovirt 3.5 on Fedora 20; all updates
> latest virtio-win 0.1-81
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> In the process of testing ovirt: testing Windows installation with virtio-win drivers
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> A) I've tried to install Windows 2008 SP2 using Virtio disk, the installation succeeded, the problem was with:
>         - the Virtio Network, the was driver installed, the NIC card detected, but no trafic after configuration, I switched to e1000 and it works.
>         - I had an unknow SCSI device, so I installed the driver and I got a nice BSOD !!!! and I had to use a previous snaphot to re-use the VM.
>         - Finally the ovirt agent did not seem to work, no information on Ovirt GUI.
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> B) With Windows 2012, only the IDE disk worked for installation, the Virtio and Virtio-SCSI helped detecting the disk, but Windows installer won't install "Error: windows can't install on disk0 partition 2 error 0x80300001"
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> using the IDE option, windows is still installing after 1h, it's very slow…

did you try the windwos guest tools iso we finally have in oVirt 3.5[1] from here[2]? Lev, which virtio version is included? Regardless the other stuff it seems like specific to virtio-win drivers….

Thanks,
michal

[1] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/oVirt_Windows_Guest_Tools
[2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5/iso/ovirt-guest-tools/
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