virtio network driver installation on windows server 2016 core guest

[Peter123]

I just installed a windows server 2016 core (without gui) as a guest and tried to install the network drivers from the virtio-ISO via the terminal with:

pnputil /add-driver viorng.inf

Altough it responded that the driver package had been added succesfully, after a reboot I cannot reach nor ping anything on the network.

 

[janos]

Is windows installed the NIC?

In Powershell

Get-NetAdapter

cmdlet will list it.

Maybe you can try install spice-guest-tools, its install all virtio drivers.

 

[Peter123]

Maybe a good try, but: how to I get the files to the server if it cannot reach the network?

 

[janos]

Create an iso with the content, and attach it. Or add an other NIC, but configure it as an e1000, because win have driver for that.

 

[Peter123]

Thanks, janos, that worked.

Does it mean that the current / working virtio network drivers for Windows Server 2016 are not included in the virtio-driver-ISO in Proxmox?

 

[janos]

Honestly, i don't know. I always downlaod the latest virtio iso from fedora.

 

[Peter123]

Sorry, the question was rather meant for Proxmox.

 

[tom]

Sorry, the question was rather meant for Proxmox.

Proxmox does not distribute a virtio ISO with windows packages. The drivers from Redhat/Fedora works well.

 

[Peter123]

ok, thanks.