Marty, See if there is a "Windows PV" OS option for the template.
On Tue, Nov 4, 2025, 5:43 PM Marty Godsey <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, Prashanth. > > I am attempting to create a template and I am having a time getting the > NIC to be the Redhat VirtIO driver. It keeps wanting to use the E1000 NIC. > I do not have any exclamation points in the device manager. All of the > drivers are installed. All the other things are there such as the ballot > drivers, etc. It is still using the QEMU disk, but that's because I have > not changed it yet, since this is a template in creation. > > I have looked through the settings in Cloudstack and do not see where I > can specify this. I have tried the Windows 2022 template with Server 2022 > and the 2025 template with 2025. > > Am I missing something in my agent.properties file or something else? > > > *From: *Prashanth Reddy <[email protected]> > *Date: *Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM > *To: *[email protected] <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: KVM Drivers for Windows VMs > > WARNING: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not > click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know > the content is safe. > > > Hi Marty, > > Everything you listed looks good. > > You can add qemu-guest-agent if you plan to take storage-based instance > snapshots > https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/adminguide/virtual_machines.html#storage-based-instance-snapshots-on-kvm > > You can skip SR-IOV driver as there is no support for SR-IOV with KVM in > Cloudstack AFAIK > > Thanks > Prashanth > > > ________________________________ > From: Marty Godsey <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 7:27 AM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: KVM Drivers for Windows VMs > > Hello, > > I am creating my template for KVM for Windows, and I wanted to ask about > the virt drivers. > > I know I need to add things like the local disk drivers, balloon driver, > NIC, etc. But what else should be included? Should I add the SR-IOV driver? > The guest-agent? > > This is my first KVM cluster. I appreciate the guidance. > > Marty > >
