I also forgot to mention - we also add these lines into our agent.properties file on the KVM hosts so that we get better display resolution and use virtio for the graphics driver
vm.video.ram=65536 vm.video.hardware=virtio and of course the virtio drivers and qemu agent are installed into all of our Windows templates Gary Dixon Quadris Cloud Manager +44 (0) 161 537 4980 +44 (0) 7989 717661 gary.di...@quadris.co.uk www.quadris.com Innovation House, 12-13 Bredbury Business Park Bredbury Park Way, Bredbury, Stockport, SK6 2SN -----Original Message----- From: Francisco Arencibia Quesada <arencibia.franci...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2024 11:51 AM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Windows templates KVM Hi Gary, Yes we are using cloud-init and in our case we are removing the recovery partition, with XCP templates all good, now we are testing the same with KVM. Thank you for your feedback :) Regards On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 12:48 PM Gary Dixon <gary.di...@quadris.co.uk.invalid> wrote: > Hi Fransisco > > Be careful if you are building Windows 11 or Wiindows Server 2022 > templates as Microsoft have changed the default OS partitioning - they > have put the recovery partition at the end of the disk.. > > We build these initially from ISO so we can add a 1Gb partition - this > then gives us the opportunity after the VM is built to re-arrange the > OS partitions without losing the recovery partition but also allows us > to 'resize' the C drive later on if we ever need to - you can find > more detailed info here > https://supe/ > ruser.com%2Fquestions%2F1453790%2Fhow-to-move-the-recovery-partition-o > n-windows-10&data=05%7C02%7CGary.Dixon%40quadris.co.uk%7Cf0c2f74a25204 > a14834108dc7596172c%7Cf1d6abf3d3b44894ae16db0fb93a96a2%7C0%7C0%7C63851 > 4534711145460%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2lu > MzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=NMfku5CZydw2mrWW > 1VIBzqiHfX8SA1zP4Caa1Lp%2FwNg%3D&reserved=0 > > It can also be useful to install cloudbase-init in your windows > template which will give you more provisioning functinality > > Gary Dixon > Quadris Cloud Manager > +44 (0) 161 537 4980 <+44%20(0)%20161%20537%204980> > +44 (0) 7989 717661 <+44%20(0)%207989%20717661> > gary.di...@quadris.co.uk > http://www.q/ > uadris.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7CGary.Dixon%40quadris.co.uk%7Cf0c2f74a2520 > 4a14834108dc7596172c%7Cf1d6abf3d3b44894ae16db0fb93a96a2%7C0%7C0%7C6385 > 14534711154700%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l > uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ELE8vzHnoRjUl0E > jyQFn0BUinPeNKf%2FEKyo6HTvjD0I%3D&reserved=0 > Innovation House, 12‑13 Bredbury Business Park Bredbury Park Way, > Bredbury, Stockport, SK6 2SN > > From: Francisco Arencibia Quesada <arencibia.franci...@gmail.com> > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2024 11:35 AM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Windows templates KVM > > Good morning guys, > > Is there any updated guide to build windows templates for KVM? I have > one but I'm just checking with you guys the best approach. It is also > required to install virtio drivers and qemu guest agent right? > > I have found the latest version of both, is this enough? > > > https://fedo/ > rapeople.org%2Fgroups%2Fvirt%2Fvirtio-win%2Fdirect-downloads%2Farchive > -virtio%2Fvirtio-win-0.1.248-1%2F&data=05%7C02%7CGary.Dixon%40quadris. > co.uk%7Cf0c2f74a25204a14834108dc7596172c%7Cf1d6abf3d3b44894ae16db0fb93 > a96a2%7C0%7C0%7C638514534711160251%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4 > wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&s > data=0s0x%2FyNV6IC3sgJ5WW8S%2FKzHetyux61nNJz7LroGRQ0%3D&reserved=0 > > > https://fedo/ > rapeople.org%2Fgroups%2Fvirt%2Fvirtio-win%2Fdirect-downloads%2Farchive > -qemu-ga%2Fqemu-ga-win-107.0.1-1.el9%2F&data=05%7C02%7CGary.Dixon%40qu > adris.co.uk%7Cf0c2f74a25204a14834108dc7596172c%7Cf1d6abf3d3b44894ae16d > b0fb93a96a2%7C0%7C0%7C638514534711164550%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWI > joiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7 > C%7C&sdata=ylpRTsOZexvxDXs7tkJ6JQ12ZVhSSXz7%2B3hXUPoEhh8%3D&reserved=0 > > > Regards > Thanks in advance :) > -- > *Francisco Arencibia Quesada.* > *DevOps Engineer* > -- *Francisco Arencibia Quesada.* *DevOps Engineer*
