<div dir="ltr">Hi Jesse<div><br></div><div style>Have you tried the "stable" virtio driver set, I've also had issues with the "latest" set on older Windows versions:</div><div style><br></div><div style>
<a href="http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/stable/">http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/stable/</a><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>-Thomas</div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Jesse Pretorius <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jesse.pretorius@gmail.com" target="_blank">jesse.pretorius@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="im">On 22 May 2013 09:15, Razique Mahroua <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:razique.mahroua@gmail.com" target="_blank">razique.mahroua@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Yah it worked here, I had to test a couple of drivers though, which version are you using?<div>

</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm trying to build Windows 2012 Standard Edition, for now.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I've been using the basic process used for Windows 2008:</div>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">wget <a href="http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/virtio-win-0.1-59.iso" target="_blank">http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/virtio-win-0.1-59.iso</a></div>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">kvm-img create -f qcow2 WindowsServer2012StandardEdition.qcow2 20G</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">kvm -m 4096 -cdrom WindowsServer2012Standard+DatacentreEdition.iso -drive file=WindowsServer2012StandardEdition.qcow2,if=virtio -drive file=virtio-win-0.1-59.iso,index=3,media=cdrom -net nic,model=virtio -net user -nographic -vnc :10</div>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Using VNC, go through the installation process until you get to the hard drive selection. No hard drives show, so use the "Load Driver" dialogue to browse to E:\WLH\AMD64 for the VirtIO driver. Select the only driver that shows: "Red Hat VirtIO SCSI controller".</div>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Continue the installation process until completion.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That all works fine, but the NIC isn't operational. As soon as I try to update the driver through the Device Manager the server crashes. When I did manage to get through to browse, the drivers in E:\WLH\AMD64 didn't show anything compatible.</div>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm about to restart the process, but instead will be doing the initial build with IDE and a standard NIC emulation. From there I'll add the drivers and other useful mods using <a href="https://github.com/jordanrinke/openstack" target="_blank">https://github.com/jordanrinke/openstack</a></div>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm just hoping that someone who's successfully done this can share some wisdom and shortcut my trial-and-error testing.</div></div></div>
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