Windows quests questions about storage and network drivers

[Halgeir]

Have two questions:

1) I have been running VIRTIO storage drivers on Windows 2008 R2 now for a long time and never experienced anything wrong with it.
Have anyone experienced any problems with VIRTIO drivers on Windows 2008 R2 quests?

In the wiki - Windows 2008 quest best practices - it's written:
"Select Bus/Device: IDE, Storage: "your preferred storage" and Cache: Write back in the Hard Disk tab and click Next."

In the wiki - Windows 2012 quest best practices - it's written:
Select Bus/Device: VIRTIO, Storage: "your preferred storage" and Cache: Write back in the Hard Disk tab and click Next.

Any reason for this?


2) Have anyone experienced problems with the VIRTIO network drivers on Windows 2008 R2 quests?
So far I'm running the E1000 driver to be sure everything is stable. But I'm considering moving to the VIRTIO network driver.

)-|algeir

 

[tom]

I am not aware of problems with virtio nic and block drivers with win2008r2 - I always use it.

 

[Halgeir]

I am not aware of problems with virtio nic and block drivers with win2008r2 - I always use it.

Okay. Thank you! Then why not recommend it in the Proxmox wiki for Windows 2008?

)-|algeir

 

[tom]

Okay. Thank you! Then why not recommend it in the Proxmox wiki for Windows 2008?

)-|algeir

I have not written the wiki page for 2008 and I do not run any win2008 server in production, so I have limited real live experience.

So I suggest you test it, then add your comments and recommendation in the wiki.