Installing Windows operating System in RHEV VM - No drives found issue

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Dear All,

I would like to have some support that i am facing during the installation of Windows2008 R2 operating system on rhev vm.
the os installation unable find the disk drive during the installation process. the image that used is pretty good one as i have done so many installation on vmware.

Any useful help is highly appreciated.

following ins the rhev enviroment.

H/W : HP Blade bl460c
RHEV : 3.2
Storage domain : FCP
Storage : HP EVA P6000

Please find the attached error screen shot.

Thanks.
Uv

uv
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SA Newbie 5 points
25 February 2014 8:47 PM

Try this out:
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.2/html/Administration_Guide/Installing_Windows_on_Virtio_Optimized_Hardware.html

uv Community Member 65 points
27 February 2014 5:21 AM

Hi,

i have followed the procedure but still the issue is existing. Very strange issue.

Thanks.
Uv

PS Guru 6494 points
27 February 2014 10:54 AM

Chinnasamy,

What is your method of Windows installation? I notice you mention an 'image' that you use on VMWare? Have you attempted the same installation with Windows 2008 R2 media provided by the vendor (Microsoft) to baseline and confirm that the issue is with RHEV and not the installation image?

My guess is that the image may have been created specifically for VMWare virtual hardware which may use a different virtual SCSI controller to that exposed to the RHEV VM, this would cause it it to have trouble finding the RHEV VM disks (although I would have expected the process Shane pointed at to resolve this).

uv Community Member 65 points
28 February 2014 8:38 AM

Hi Pixe,

Thank you for the support, the image( Win 2008 R2 SP1 OS Image ) that i was using is original Microsoft image only.
Also i have done lots of installation on VMs and Physical Machines using the same image so there is no issue with image.

Anyway i am trying to download a fresh demo image from Microsoft and let me update you about it.
Thanks
Uv

PS Guru 6494 points
28 February 2014 9:38 AM

No problem, I was just confirming you were using an original Microsoft image, shouldn't need to download it again.

Only other items I would go through (which you likely already have).
1. You definitely have 'VirtIO' as the hard disk interface type in the Virtual Disk configuration?
2. During the installation the floppy disk is detected OK and the vfd loads OK from the floppy?
3. Have you installed other VMs successfully in this RHEV environment (eg. RHEL guests?)

uv Community Member 65 points
28 February 2014 10:18 AM

Hi Pixe,

Thank you for the support. Please find the following answers.

  1. You definitely have 'VirtIO' as the hard disk interface type in the Virtual Disk configuration?
    Yes, The drive is configured as VirtIO.
  2. During the installation the floppy disk is detected OK and the vfd loads OK from the floppy?
    during the run once process i did check for floppy to attache Intel x86 drivers and attached DVD image and changed the booting order DVD first.
  3. Have you installed other VMs successfully in this RHEV environment (eg. RHEL guests?)
    One RHEL 6.3 VM is running.

Thanks.
Uv

PS Guru 6494 points
28 February 2014 10:51 AM

Uv,

For item 2. You are pressing [F6] during the early part of the 2008 installation and loading the driver from the mounted floppy disk? Does it say the VirtIO driver loads OK from the floppy disk?

Bryan Yount's picture Red Hat Guru 5688 points
4 March 2014 2:18 AM

"2. During the installation the floppy disk is detected OK and the vfd loads OK from the floppy?
during the run once process i did check for floppy to attache Intel x86 drivers and attached DVD image and changed the booting order DVD first."

  • Is Windows 32-bit or 64-bit? If it's 64-bit, use the AMD64 folder instead of the x86 folder when locating the viostor drivers.
uv Community Member 65 points
4 March 2014 12:18 PM

Thanks bryan,
yes it is 64 bit OS. It picked the drivers after selecting the AMD driver. the installation is going on now.
but my concern that i am installing an OS on x86 intel based virtual machine so why should select AMD drivers.

Thanks.
Uv

Bryan Yount's picture Red Hat Guru 5688 points
6 March 2014 9:57 PM

Good question. The folder is named AMD64 because AMD developed the first 64-bit extensions that all x86 processors now use. So, saying something is AMD64 is equivalent to saying x64.

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64

uv Community Member 65 points
28 February 2014 11:48 AM

Hi Pixe,

No i don't press f6 during the installation ? i am missing anything.

Thanks.
Uv

PS Guru 6494 points
28 February 2014 12:04 PM

Sorry, I don't often install Windows. I have found a video that shows the step you may be missing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUxrdTvaQvU&t=5m24s

You need to load the drivers off the floppy disk so the installer can see the virtio hard disks. The video is for ProxMox but it is the same process (I have linked to the correct part of the video)

Is this step working correctly with the floppy image you have?

uv Community Member 65 points
28 February 2014 8:16 PM

Hi,

after watching the link thought it was promising but no luck.
i was trying to locate the floppy drive for drivers however the OS has not found required drivers.
i am getting following message "No signed device drivers were found "

Thanks.
Uv

PS Guru 6494 points
1 March 2014 2:16 AM

Uv,

This is the issue you need to fix, without the driver loaded from the floppy drive image the installer won't be able to see the hard disks (unless you use a disk virtualization method that the 2008 OS install supports natively).

You can browse to the floppy drive and see the contents, it just can't find the device driver?

uv Community Member 65 points
1 March 2014 7:00 AM

Hi Pixe,

Thanks lot, let me try again and will update you the result tomorrow.

Thanks.
Uv

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