Hi all,

I'm trying to pass through an existing Windows 10 drive, I have set up the VM and passed through my drive in place of the primary v-disk like so "/dev/disk/by-id/diskid".

Now if I try running this I get the Windows loading screen although it fails to start, the only explanation I can think of is that the VertIO drivers are not installed.

 

I can get into the drive the native route and install what I need, although I have no idea how to install the drivers. Which I am presuming that you have to copy them to a specific place due to no .exe installer (bearing in mind I can't install via device manager due to the virtual devices not being there).

 

I notice that it does work when I set the primary v-disks interface to be SATA rather than VertIO, but I believe that VertIO is better? I hear that it is faster.

 

Thanks,

Jamie

Edited December 3, 20178 yr by jbonnett

I figured it out I still have a couple of problems though, I set my primary v-disk to use the interface SATA and I passed through another storage device with the interface VertIO. I then installed the VertIO driver and shutdown the VM when the installation was complete, changed the primary v-disk back to VertIO and on the next boot it works. The problem is that I can't boot into my drive if I wanted to boot it without it being attached to a VM (bare metal).

 

I do notice a lot of errors in the log though:

smbus: error: Unexpected read in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected NACK in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected NACK in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected recv start condition in state 3
smbus: error: Unexpected read in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected NACK in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected NACK in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected recv start condition in state 3
smbus: error: Unexpected read in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected NACK in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected NACK in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected recv start condition in state 3
smbus: error: Unexpected read in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected NACK in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected NACK in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected recv start condition in state 3
smbus: error: Unexpected read in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected NACK in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected NACK in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected recv start condition in state 3
smbus: error: Unexpected read in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected NACK in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected NACK in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected recv start condition in state 3
smbus: error: Unexpected read in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected NACK in state -1
smbus: error: Unexpected NACK in state -1

 

Edited December 3, 20178 yr by jbonnett

I fixed my issue by attempting to load the drive bare metal and when Windows got to the repair stage I took these steps:
 1. Select troubleshoot.
 2. Advanced Options.
 3. Startup Settings.
 4. Options 6 "Disable Driver signature enforcement".

When the system restarted I was able to login and all I had to do then was open CMD via (Windows key + R) and type CMD click ok and enter the following commands:
 1. "bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot".
 2. "shutdown /r /t 0".

And it was running like normal.