[SOLVED] Windows Server 2022 VM installation issues

[ElvisDumbledore]

No matter what driers I try to install, I keep getting "a media driver your computer needs is missing."

I followed the best practices from the wiki.
I also tried just installing drivers from the amd64, balloon, netkvm, smbus, viofs, vioinput, viomem, vioscsi, vioserial, and viostor folders. (only installed drivers that appeared while "hide drivers that are incompatilble..." was selected.
I tried removing the network card as well.

I also tried using the ovmf (uefi) bios with efi and tpm storage enabled. The windows installer refused to start when those were enabled.

120.conf:
agent: 1
boot: order=ide1;ide0;ide2
cores: 2
cpu: x86-64-v2-AES
ide0: SkratchISO:iso/virtio-win-0.1.285.iso,media=cdrom,size=771138K
ide1: local-lvm:vm-120-disk-0,discard=on,size=32G
ide2: SkratchISO:iso/windows.server.2022.SERVER_EVAL_x64FRE_en-us.iso,media=cdrom,size=2
141824K
machine: pc-q35-9.0
memory: 4096
meta: creation-qemu=9.0.2,ctime=1762361229
name: WinSvr22
numa: 0
ostype: win11
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=4df10e63-096b-4db5-b818-422fdcc14334
sockets: 1
vmgenid: b55f6d59-3e25-4bba-a8ad-d19dcc61e78e


This is the screen I get after applying any of the drivers from the virtio driver iso.
I also get the same error whether C is IDE, SATA, or SCSCI.

My underlying storage is all ZFS and LVM which require raw disks.
I'll try adding some ext4 storage and use the qcow disk format.

Added ext4 storage and created c as qcow format. Same issue persists. Tried C as SCSI and SATA.


SOLVED: My Windows 2022 iso was corrupted. Downloaded a new one and everything went perfectly.

 

[SteveITS]

I suggest a SCSI disk for C: since it should be much faster. Also the other disk options at https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_2022_guest_best_practices#Prepare

I do not have a direct answer to your question. I have installed Windows 11, and imported various Server VMs. Since https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_2022_guest_best_practices#Launch_Windows_install describes the SCSI driver load I suggest just trying SCSI.

 

[MarkusKo]

You should not need a driver at installation because you have set everything to "ide" but if it does not work you can try "sata" instead.

Normally you would set the hard disk to to scsi so that the virtio scsi single controller is used, then you could load the scsi driver at installation, path "vioscsi\2k22\amd64".

And for the virtio version, depending on your use case you may want to use an older version like virtio-win-0.1.271-1 or virtio-win-0.1.266-1 for now because virtio-win-0.1.285-1 apparently has some issues like MS SQL corruption or iscsi connection issues ...

 

[ElvisDumbledore]

This is the screen I get after applying any of the drivers from the virtio driver iso.
I also get the same error whether C is IDE, SATA, or SCSCI.