Installing a Windows 2008/2012/7/8 (x86,x64) VMs with a VirtIO system disk fails to load virtio drivers from virtio vFloppy disk.
Issue
- As per this kbase article installed
virtio-winpackage on rhevm system, and uploaded 'vfd' file to iso-storage domain. Post creating the Windows VM clicked on 'Run Once' and attached virti-win floppy disk but clicking the 'Load Driver' option does not detect the drivers and hence not able to move forward.
- Installation of
Windows 2008 R2on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, is failing with a messageNo devices could be found. Make sure the driver files are correct and located on the driver installation mediaeven after attaching virtio-win floppy disk correctly.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization(RHEV) 3.X
- Windows Operating system as Guest
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