Windows 2012R2 virtio-scsi-pci driver not found

[Doug Meredith]

I'm attempting to install Windows Server 2012 R2 in a VM on ProxMox VE 7.1. I'm using virtio-win-0.1.208.iso for drivers and following the instructions from "Windows 2012 guest best practices" in the wiki. I've successfully done an install of Windows 10, so I like to believe it's not just me failing to understand the process. lol

When it comes time to select drivers from the CD image, it goes fine with the network and ballooning drivers, but it shows a blank list for the network driver (vioscsi\2k12r2\amd64). If I uncheck "Hide drivers that aren't compatible with this computer's hardware", then two (seemingly identical) Red Hat drivers are shown. I'm hesitant to go forward with drivers that the installer thinks aren't compatible.

VM definition:

agent: 1
balloon: 512
boot: order=ide2;net0;ide0
cores: 4
ide0: Flash:iso/virtio-win-0.1.208.iso,media=cdrom,size=543390K
ide2: Flash:iso/en_windows_server_2012_r2_with_update_x64_dvd_6052708.iso,media=cdrom,size=5271376K
machine: pc-i440fx-6.1
memory: 2048
meta: creation-qemu=6.1.0,ctime=1640145288
name: DC1
net0: virtio=CE:27:5A2:275,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: win8
sata1: vm-disk:vm-111-disk-0,discard=on,size=64G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=4a2fdc83-3be6-4844-9457-9c29abe41649
sockets: 1
vmgenid: f68b9889-b8e3-48ea-afee-bb1b60f78b99

I've Googled looking for a a solution, and I've searched the forum, but with no luck. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Doug

 

[t.lamprecht]

Well, while the SCSI controller HW is correctly set to VirtIO you do not have any SCSI drive configured, only a single SATA one (sata1), so I'd imagine that's why Windows does not detects the SCSI one as useful driver..

Can you try to detach+re-attach that drive as SCSI?

 

[Doug Meredith]

Doh! That fixed the problem. Much appreciated.