Hi, Did you check this document? https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/adminguide/templates.html You need to prepare your VM and specify the OS type as "Other PV (xx-bit)"
Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Ruben Bosch CLDIN > On 23 Oct 2023, at 23:05, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
