Actually, I figured it out. Odd, I mounted the ISO in linux and extracted the files for 2008 R2. Now I am going to play with getting 2012 up and working (getting the drive to show up) during installation.
On Apr 11, 2013, at 9:54 PM, Maurice Lawler <maurice.law...@me.com> wrote: > 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 >
