Bug 981817
| Summary: | virtio-win drivers seemingly incompatible with Windows 2008 R2 during installation | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Bryan Yount <byount> | ||||||
| Component: | virtio-win | Assignee: | Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> | ||||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||||
| Version: | 6.4 | CC: | acathrow, bcao, bsarathy, kzhang, lijin, mdeng, michen, rhod, virt-bugs | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2013-07-29 10:18:52 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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Created attachment 769452 [details]
Warning message
I just tested with the latest "virtio-win-1.6.5-5.el6_4" and the issue persists.
I can reproduce but let developer decide it whether it is a bug . BTW ,We reports some bugs about virtio serial/balloon can not be installed during guest installation .but they all closed as notabug at last It's not a bug. Vista and higher, do not honor the floppy disk layout anymore. (In reply to Vadim Rozenfeld from comment #3) > It's not a bug. Vista and higher, do not honor the floppy disk layout > anymore. FYI, I tried to attach the virtio-win.iso steps same as comment #0 Actual Results: A warning message appears informing the user that "No device drivers were found." as shown in the win2008r2-virtio-02.png screenshot. Additional Info: After dismissing the warning message. If the user unchecks "Hide drivers that are not compatible..." and clicks rescan, *still* can not find driver (In reply to Mike Cao from comment #4) > (In reply to Vadim Rozenfeld from comment #3) > > It's not a bug. Vista and higher, do not honor the floppy disk layout > > anymore. > > FYI, I tried to attach the virtio-win.iso steps same as comment #0 > > Actual Results: > A warning message appears informing the user that "No device drivers were > found." as shown in the win2008r2-virtio-02.png screenshot. > > Additional Info: > After dismissing the warning message. If the user unchecks "Hide drivers > that are not compatible..." and clicks rescan, *still* can not find driver Mike, can you please check if it the only win2008r2 problem? What about Win7/32-bit does it have the same problem? Thanks, Vadim. Closing, It is known that Microsoft's scanning does not work and that the user has to select the driver manually. The only way to fix it is to build an ISO per guest OS, and we prefer not to. |
Created attachment 769451 [details] Selecting the proper VirtIO driver folder Description of problem: When installing a Windows 2008 R2 (64-bit) guest, the virtio storage drivers in the Win2008R2 folder do not appear to be "automatically compatible" with this particular OS which causes the user to have to go through additional steps that may not be apparent. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virtio-win-1.6.4-1.el6_4 How reproducible: Very Steps to Reproduce: 1. Begin installation of Windows 2008 R2 64-bit guest 2. Attach virtio-win-1.6.4_amd64.vfd to VM using "Run once" menu 3. Select Load driver when prompted 4. Browse to A:\amd64\Win2008R2 5. Click OK Actual results: A warning message appears informing the user that "No device drivers were found." as shown in the win2008r2-virtio-02.png screenshot. Expected results: VirtIO SCSI controller should appear in the list Additional info: After dismissing the warning message. If the user unchecks "Hide drivers that are not compatible..." and clicks rescan, they are able to choose the VirtIO scsi controller for Windows 2008 and proceed with installation.