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WIN 10 VM - DEll R710 - VirIO Driver?

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Hello all,

 

I have been messing with unraid for a while and just migrated to a Dell R710 rack server. 

Now I would like to try installing a Win10 VM.

Set up is done and we get to the install stage but can't find a driver in the "virtio-win-0.1.160-1.iso" file that works. 

Tried everything and no disk shows up....

I have tried all of the possible options and the only one that shows a driver that is compatible and it doesn't work.

 

I have also search the $#^& out of this forum with no joy.

 

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This is the sheet but can't find a driver that works. 

If anyone has one of these servers and/or has a suggestion please let me know.

Is it the vdisk type? vDisk bus? CPU mode?

Just too many options and combinations to do trial and error.

 

Thanks in Advance

 

Toolman

  • 2 weeks later...

I am currently having this same issue

  • 4 weeks later...
  • Author

Bump....

The VirtIO driver should be in every virtio ISO, I remember a user recently that was having a similar issue and the problem was the Windows ISO, you can try redownloading it from MS website.

  • Author

Ohhhhhh.....didn't think of that.

 

I'll give it a try and report back.....

 

Thanks!

  • Author

Solved

 

Well I am not sure what did it but I have a Windows 10 VM up and running. I changed a few things in my property sheet and that seems to have done it.

 

First is my hardware setup:

Dell R710 server, 12 Xeon 5600 Series processors (24 with HT), 48G memory, 6 Sata HD

 

This is what I did to the best of my recollection:

 

1. Grabbed a new copy of windows 10 from Microsoft using the Media Creation Tool - https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10

2. Updated driver files to virtio-win-0.1.171.iso at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/creating-windows-virtual-machines-using-virtio-drivers/

3. Changed the OS Install CDROM bus to Sata

4. VM Property sheet:

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It then booted into Windows install.

5. To get the disk to work I had to use the Fedora Red Hat AMD dirvers (?!?!? not sure why this worked since this is a Xeon system).

6. Install completed .... but I had no internet so .....

7. Installed the network driver ....

8. Up and running

 

I also installed a graphics driver to get a more reasonable screen size:

and a virtual sound device....

 

Thats it and it works wonderfully.

 

Cheers

 

PS: Thanks Johnnie Black for the redirection. 😁

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