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No not sure….
what happens is that after you spawn the instance, Windows considers your virtio disk as new hardware, and he installs again the driver, strange really….
maybe you can check though into /var/log/libvirtd.log. What kind of disk backend are you using?

Le 18 sept. 2013 à 18:07, Joe Topjian <joe.topjian at cybera.ca> a écrit :

> Hi Razique,
> 
> Thanks for the IDE tip. :)
> 
> Regarding Windows 2012 and the latest drivers: everything has been working great with the win7 version of the older drivers that I linked to. I can attach and detach volumes all day without an issue. If someone tries this and runs into problems, then it might be a libvirt/kvm issue?
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Razique Mahroua <razique.mahroua at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes,
> I had many issues, looks like only windows 2012 supports the latest virtio drivers.
> the trick consists in attaching a second disk in virtio while keeping the first one in IDE mode, thus you can install over and over the drivers until you find the right version.
> I've created all images from XP to server 2012 and everytime I had to use a different driver :/
> regards,
> Razique
> 
> Razique Mahroua - Nuage & Co
> razique.mahroua at gmail.com
> Tel : +33 9 72 37 94 15
> 
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> Le 18 sept. 2013 à 17:42, Joe Topjian <joe.topjian at cybera.ca> a écrit :
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> On the topic of Windows problems (Jon's email reminded me to send this), I ran into a really frustrating issue a few days ago.
>> 
>> I was creating some new Windows images and decided to use the latest VirtIO drivers. All images (Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 based) were able to boot and run just fine, but they would all blue screen whenever I attached a volume.
>> 
>> Upon reboot, the volume would be attached. 
>> 
>> When detaching the volume, they would all blue screen and the volume would be gone upon reboot.
>> 
>> The *only* version of the VirtIO drivers that worked for me is this one:
>> 
>> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/archives/virtio-win-0.1-30/
>> 
>> The windows images were used against the latest libvirt/KVM on Ubuntu 12.04.
>> 
>> Has anyone else run into this issue?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Joe
>> 
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>> 
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