[Openstack-operators] Windows 2012 KVM Image Creation

Razique Mahroua razique.mahroua at gmail.com
Wed May 22 11:23:41 UTC 2013


thanks for that!
Le 22 mai 2013 à 12:55, Pedro Navarro Pérez <pednape at gmail.com> a écrit :

> 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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