Windows 2008R2 + virtio-win-0.1-15 block device = blue screen

[sidmax]

[SOLVED] Windows 2008R2 + virtio-win-0.1-15 block device = blue screen

Hi all,

today I've installed the latest virtio drivers available on fedora's web site (virtio-win-0.1-15.iso) on a Windows 2008R2 server.

After changing the boot disk to Virtio an starting the VM I've got a blue screen.

I've solved the issue using the storage drivers from the previous version of the iso: virtio-win-1.1.16.iso

I've checked if something changed installing the older version and the upgrading to the latest: I got the same blue screen.

Hope this can help someone else..

Silvio

Guest system: Windows Server 2008 R2

pve-manager: 1.9-24 (pve-manager/1.9/6542)
running kernel: 2.6.32-4-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.9-47
pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve: 2.6.32-33
pve-kernel-2.6.32-6-pve: 2.6.32-47
qemu-server: 1.1-32
pve-firmware: 1.0-14
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-19
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.29-2pve1
vzdump: 1.2-16
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.15.0-1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-6

 

[tom]

how did you "change" exactly?

boot up with ide boot disk and a temporary second virtio disk. install the drivers for the second disk via the device manager wizard. now shutdown and change also the ide boot disk to virtio (and remove the temp. disk).

 

[sidmax]

Hi Tom,

I did exactly the way you wrote (it's not the first time I install the virtio drivers so I was quite surprised by the blue screen) and I can confirm the problem.

The same procedure with the 1.1.16 release worked fine.

Also when I installed the 1.1.16 version and then upgraded to the latest I got the same problem.

The solution for me was to stay with the 1.1.16 release of the storage driver (at the moment I had no issues with the network driver).

Regards,
Silvio

 

[e100]

I have been using virtio-win-0.1-15.iso for almost a month on numerous 2008 R2 machines without any problems.
Just updated a 2003 machine the other day too.

All of my machine already had a previous version, I updated to virtio-win-0.1-15.iso using the device manager and selecting update driver.

# pveversion -v
pve-manager: 1.9-24 (pve-manager/1.9/6542)
running kernel: 2.6.32-6-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.9-47
pve-kernel-2.6.18-1-pve: 2.6.18-4
pve-kernel-2.6.32-6-pve: 2.6.32-47
qemu-server: 1.1-32
pve-firmware: 1.0-14
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-19
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.29-2pve1
vzdump: 1.2-16
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.15.0-1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-6

 

[sidmax]

Re: Windows 2008R2 + virtio-win-0.1-15 block device = blue screen [SOLVED]

[SOLVED]

Hi all,

after comparing the output of pveversion -v from e100's post with mine I've noticed a minor difference in the kernel version (mine was 2.6.32-4-pve, e100's 2.6.32-6-pve).

The updates had alredy been downloaded and installed but the proxmox server needed a reboot to start with the new kernel.

After rebooting proxmox I upgraded the VM drivers to virtio-win-0.1-15 and they worked.