I do now see data drives to be attached to windows 2008 r2, however, I am not sure how to install the drivers provided by the ISO.
Can you please tell me how to make windows 2008 see the secondary attached drives by installing these drivers? - Maurice On Apr 10, 2013, at 6:14 PM, Kirk Kosinski <kirkkosin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Maurice. > > 1. Server 2012 is not supported in CS 4.0.1 so there is no guarantee it > will work. If the installer is not seeing any drives, it probably means > the drives are using the VirtIO SCSI controller, so try loading the > drivers for the VirtIO SCSI adapter [1], or try using a different OS > Type that provides an IDE drive to the VM. You can switch the OS Type > after the install is done if you need the root disk on VirtIO. > > As I test, I uploaded a Server 2012 ISO configured with the Windows > Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) OS Type to my CS 4.0.1 setup with KVM hosts > (Ubuntu 12.04.2). The OS installed and booted without a problem, and > data disks are detected after installing VirtIO drivers [2]. I then > changed the OS Type to Windows PV successfully [3]. > > 2. While logged in as a user in the account that owns the VM, create a > new virtual disk and see if you can attach it to the VM. It works fine > in my CS 4.0.1 setup with a test VM with the Windows Server 2008 R2 > (64-bit) OS Type. Data disks are detected by the OS without a problem > [4]. Other than an account mismatch I can't think of anything else that > would cause this. > > Best regards, > Kirk > > [1] http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/ > [2] http://i.imgur.com/99FOhBg.png > [3] http://i.imgur.com/lEwTYvp.png > [4] http://i.imgur.com/DgurKin.png > > On 04/09/2013 04:25 PM, Maurice Lawler wrote: >> Hello Team, >> >> My present setup is as follows: >> >> KVM | CentOS | CS 4.0.1 >> >> 1st Issue: >> >> Attempting to utilizing Windows Server 2012, the ISO does not find the >> virtual drive. Even provisioning a secondary one, it will allow me to >> attach it, yet and still I cannot install to the secondary or first drive. >> >> 2nd Issue: >> >> Attempting to provision and attach a secondary virtual drive to an >> existing Windows Server 2008R2 instance, seems to not allow that. When I >> go to attach the volume, it lists my linux instances and my windows 2012 >> (which doesn't matter because that's nt working) but not the window 2008 >> instance. >> >> Does anyone out there have any experience on either flavour of windows >> and utilizing CS on KVM. >> >> Please assist me if you can. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Maurice
