[ovirt-users] Installing Windows - no virtio-win.vfd as floppy option

Geoff Sweet geoffrsweet+ovirtusers at gmail.com
Fri Feb 23 00:25:10 UTC 2018


Yeah I just read that.  I managed to discover that there is the
"virtio-win" packages available in my repo, but apparently they aren't
signed.  So then I disovered the Fedora relased ones that at least are
signed.  Guess I will give those a whirl and see where it gets me.

-G

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 3:50 PM, Vincent Royer <vincent at epicenergy.ca>
wrote:

> download the ISO separately and put it in your storage domain.  Then use
> the "Change CD" function to load it part-way through the windows
> installation when it is looking for the disk to install to.  Once you
> install all the drivers, the network will start working and the drives will
> show up and you'll be able to proceed with your windows installation.
>
> Following the instructions did not work for me either.
>
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> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 3:38 PM, Geoff Sweet <
> geoffrsweet+ovirtusers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Howdy all, I'm following this document:
>>
>> https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/vmm-guide/chap-Installin
>> g_Windows_Virtual_Machines/
>>
>> To launch a couple Windows VM's. The document outlines that the
>> virtio-win.vfd file is automatically installed into the ISO storage domain
>> for the engine host. And that you can upload it to other ISO domains as
>> needed.  For the life of me, I can not find that file anywhere across any
>> of my ovirt servers.  For reference this is 4.2.0.
>>
>> Am I missing something obvious?
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can offer.
>>
>> -Geoff
>>
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