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Hi Jesse,

Have you tried the "official" OpenStack Windows Server 2012 image from
cloudbase?

http://www.cloudbase.it/ws2012/


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Thomas Black <thomas at babelgeek.com> wrote:
> Hi Jesse
>
> Have you tried the "stable" virtio driver set, I've also had issues with the
> "latest" set on older Windows versions:
>
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/stable/
>
> -Thomas
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Jesse Pretorius
> <jesse.pretorius at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 22 May 2013 09:15, Razique Mahroua <razique.mahroua at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yah it worked here, I had to test a couple of drivers though, which
>>> version are you using?
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to build Windows 2012 Standard Edition, for now.
>>
>> I've been using the basic process used for Windows 2008:
>>
>> wget
>> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/virtio-win-0.1-59.iso
>>
>> kvm-img create -f qcow2 WindowsServer2012StandardEdition.qcow2 20G
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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".
>>
>> Continue the installation process until completion.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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 https://github.com/jordanrinke/openstack
>>
>> I'm just hoping that someone who's successfully done this can share some
>> wisdom and shortcut my trial-and-error testing.
>>
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