Can not load up VIRTIO drivers (for storage) when installing Windows 7

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leenux_tux

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Hello Forum,

Firstly wanted to say......Proxmox "noob" so be gentle with me !!

Secondly, I have been using VMWare ESXi since V4 in a home office environment and REALLY want to be able to migrate over to Proxmox. In fact, I plan to move everything over to Linux/FreeBSD (I also run FreeNAS for VM storage as well) eventually.

OK, on to the issue I am having. I have successfully installed a Windows 2003 Server and a Linux Mint system on Proxmox, using the standard disk drivers (IDE), however, I would like to utilize the VIRTIO drivers instead. Having read a few posts about these drivers it appears they are much better suited.

Details of the VM

  • Win7Guest.jpg
  • When I boot the VM, the install starts.
  • It gets to the point where it wants to know where to install Windows and I click on "Load Driver"
  • Browse
  • Open up the CDROM where the VirtIO drivers live
  • Win7Guest_driver_choice.jpg
  • When I click OK all I get are two INF files availabe, BALLON.INF (which I thought was a memory driver) and VIOSER.INF which is a serial driver.

Where are the drivers for the hard drives ? Have I downloaded the wrong file ? I have tried three different VIRTIO downlaods

  • virtio-win-0.1-100.iso
  • virtio-win-0.1.103.iso
  • virtio-win-0.1.96.iso

and none of them work.

Can anyone shed any light on where I am going wring with this ?

Thanks
 
Tom, tomstephens89,

Thanks for your feedback.

+ I followed the Proxmox youtube video (just in case I was doing something REALLY stupid). I even downloaded the ISO file that was used in the video and followed the video verbatim, and I still only got two drivers available and not four as per the video (no Redhat drivers available) :eek:
+ I destroyed the original VM and re-created using IDE for the driver. After the OS was installed, I added a NIC (VIRTIO) and successfully added the VIRTIO drivers using the latest ISO from within Windows :D, however, I had to let Windows search the entire ISO for the correct file as I couldn't figure out which folder the VIRTIO drivers were in. :eek:

I am working away from home this week so do not have access to the system, as soon as I get back I will post the results.
 
leenux_tux said:
Tom, tomstephens89,

Thanks for your feedback.

+ I followed the Proxmox youtube video (just in case I was doing something REALLY stupid). I even downloaded the ISO file that was used in the video and followed the video verbatim, and I still only got two drivers available and not four as per the video (no Redhat drivers available) :eek:
+ I destroyed the original VM and re-created using IDE for the driver. After the OS was installed, I added a NIC (VIRTIO) and successfully added the VIRTIO drivers using the latest ISO from within Windows :D, however, I had to let Windows search the entire ISO for the correct file as I couldn't figure out which folder the VIRTIO drivers were in. :eek:

I am working away from home this week so do not have access to the system, as soon as I get back I will post the results.
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Are you sure your Windows ISO is 64bit? I noticed you are looking in the AMD64 folder for the drivers.

Also, when creating a second disk drive for the virtIO ISO, are you using IDE as the bus?

Tom
 
I just installed 103 (current) last night in Win7 enterprise 64 bit without problems. Gave a performance increase between 20-25% for virtio-block and virtio-scsi.
 
I did say it was going to be something stupid.

I thought the copy of Windows 7 I had was 64 bit, it wasn't, it was 32. As soon as I pointed the install at the correct folder all went well. I now have Windows 7 running and I have to say, it's a hell of lot snappier than running a similar VM from ESXi. Especially as I am running this particular machine via an NFS mount. NFS mounted VM's under ESXi was a painful experience.
 
leenux_tux said:
I did say it was going to be something stupid.

I thought the copy of Windows 7 I had was 64 bit, it wasn't, it was 32. As soon as I pointed the install at the correct folder all went well. I now have Windows 7 running and I have to say, it's a hell of lot snappier than running a similar VM from ESXi. Especially as I am running this particular machine via an NFS mount. NFS mounted VM's under ESXi was a painful experience.
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Haha, thought it might be that! ;)
 
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