Hello all,
A few weeks back I sent a message about how my VMs created in CS do not honor the installed PV drivers. To recap, I use XCP-NG for my hypervisors, and I use a lab install to create templates that I then upload into the CS console. This lab XCP-NG cluster is the same version and patch level as the production CS hosts. On these templates, I add the Windows PV drivers so the VM runs with the best driver support. You can see the proper drivers when you go into the device manager, and you get the message in XOA that the agent is installed. So as an example, you see the NIC as an XCP-NG Virt NIC, the XCP-NG storage bus, etc. I then sysprep this image and shutdown and then export the VHD and import into CS. But here is where it gets weird. After uploading this VHD into CS and then creating a VM from that template, the PV drivers are not used. It reverts to the Realtek NIC, the storage driver is gone, and XOA does not show it has an agent. So its like the drivers are not even installed. To make sure its not my hardware, if I import the same VHD manually into one of the CS hosts directly and create a fully default VM with that template, all the drivers are still present. So my question is, is CS creating the VM in such a way that it is not allowing the driver use? Are there any settings I can look at to find out why this is happening? I do check the slider bar that says "Original XS Version is 6.1+". Should I not do this? Thank you guys for any help.
