I thought there used to be a sticky on how to get Windows installed in KVM but now I can't find anything. Basically, I can get it going via webvirtman but then the windows installer doesn't detect that there is an HDD to install to. Can anyone tip me off as to what I've forgotten? Running latest beta 14b and updated webvirtman plug.

You need to mount the red had virtio ISO and install the virtio hard drive drivers before you can install Windows.

You rock, thanks!

 

I don't know if this is the exact best way but after searching the forum for virtio-win I saw another example and I just added this to the xml in webvirtman after downloading the iso from https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/

 

Obviously you'll want to change the location to your location. Hope this helps someone in the future!

 

    <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <source file='/mnt/cache/domains/iso/virtio-win-0.1-100.iso'/>
      <backingStore/>
      <target dev='sdd' bus='sata'/>
      <readonly/>
      <alias name='sata0-0-3'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='3'/>
    </disk>

I thought there used to be a sticky on how to get Windows installed in KVM but now I can't find anything. Basically, I can get it going via webvirtman but then the windows installer doesn't detect that there is an HDD to install to. Can anyone tip me off as to what I've forgotten? Running latest beta 14b and updated webvirtman plug.

There is also a better plugin vm manager stickied. You don't need webvirtman or virtman just the dynamix.kvm.manager.plg.  It has the link for the drivers right on the Create tab page.

Oh cool. I'll have to check that out. Thanks!

I thought there used to be a sticky on how to get Windows installed in KVM but now I can't find anything. Basically, I can get it going via webvirtman but then the windows installer doesn't detect that there is an HDD to install to. Can anyone tip me off as to what I've forgotten? Running latest beta 14b and updated webvirtman plug.

There is also a better plugin vm manager stickied. You don't need webvirtman or virtman just the dynamix.kvm.manager.plg.  It has the link for the drivers right on the Create tab page.

 

Could you please mark the old webvirtman plugin thread as deprecated with a message to use the current stickied thread instead.  I too took a wrong turn there wasting time and effort until I realized I was in the wrong place.  I've been away from following unRAID development activity and was trying to catch up from June of last year.  Obviously a lot has transpired since then.  Your efforts are greatly appreciated.  Thank you.