Hi everyone,
I'm making some update to the way my Windows 11 VM works and it seems like I can't get it to work properly.
Previously, I was using a 1 TB NVME drive where I was binding the corresponding VFIO at boot of the corresponding IOMMU group. This worked really well and I was able to select "None" as my Primary vDisk Location.
Now, I decided to change my setup and little bit and want to use a SATA SSD as my main drive. I don't really care about my VM config so just decided to create a new one. I followed the same step, where I bind the corresponding VFIO at boot of the corresponding IOMMU group containing my SSD Drive. I have an MSI PRO B660-A DDR4 where all SATA ports are bound to 1 IOMMU group, which is fine, because I'm running my unraid array out of a separate LSI HBA card, so no issues there. In fact, it's even better because I'd love to pass not only a SATA SSD but some other SATA drives to my VM, so that would work.
I start the VM, jump right into the Windows 11 installer, I can see my drive just fine, go along with the Windows 11 installation until it succeeds.
Then, the VM restarts into the UEFI Interactive Shell, but I just can't see my drive. There is a few options, unfortunately, none seems to be corresponding to my SSD. At first, I thought maybe the binding was wrong, but then, the more I think about it, the more I was able to install Windows 11 on it, so the VM "should" be able to see it too right?
From the UEFI Interactive Shell, I can type exit and then go to the BIOS Boot Manager, where I can see a few options.
Windows Boot Manager : Flickers briefly and brings me back to the same BIOS Boot Manager Menu.
EFI Internal Shell : Brings me back to the UEFI Interactive Shell.
UEFI QEMU DVD-ROM QM00001 : Boots the Windows 11 installation.
UEFI QEMU DVD-ROM QM00003 : Flickers briefly and brings me back to the same BIOS Boot Manager Menu.
UEFI PXEv4 : Tries to boot from a network attached devices.
I've tried playing around with the Logical CPUs, the Memory and a few other things. Here's what I currently have :
CPU Mode : Host Passthrough
Machine : Q35-7.1
BIOS : OVMF TPM
Enable USB Boot : No
Hyper-V : Yes
USB Controller : 3.0 (qemu XHCI)
Other PCI Devices : Intel Alder Lake-S PCH SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] | SATA controller (00:17.0)
Is there anything else in my IOMMU group that I should pass to the VM for it to be able to boot from my drive?
What am I missing?
Please see the attached screenshots for more detail.
Thank you!