toolmanz Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 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. 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 Quote Link to comment
aadamchick Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 I am currently having this same issue Quote Link to comment
toolmanz Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 Bump.... Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment
toolmanz Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 Ohhhhhh.....didn't think of that. I'll give it a try and report back..... Thanks! Quote Link to comment
toolmanz Posted February 13, 2020 Author Share Posted February 13, 2020 (edited) 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: 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. 😁 Edited February 13, 2020 by toolmanz added thanks Quote Link to comment
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