Re: [Libguestfs] Offline virtio installation on Windows 2012R2

On 13/06/14 12:51, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > [Matt (CC'd) can probably answer this one better than anyone ...] I haven't implemented this for W2k12. Sounds like a job for Google and a couple of weeks of experimentation :( Be prepared to find many blog posts which are wrong. Matt > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:34:08AM +0300, Nikos Skalkotos wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I'm trying to automate the installation of the VirtIO drivers on a >> Windows image in the same way it is done in [1] and [2]. >> >> Registering the viostor service and adding the driver under the >> HKEY_LOCALE_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\CriticalDeviceDatabase >> registry key, makes an Windows 2008R2 image boot if the hd is under the >> virtio interface, but I cannot make this work for Windows 2012R2. As far >> as I've seen, the CDDB registry keys are deprecated in newer Windows and >> creating them back does not seem to make this work. >> >> Has anybody had any luck with this? Is there any other way to do it for >> newer Windows? >> >> If this does not work out, I'll probably try to add the driver >> installations process in a RunOnce registry entry, boot the image using >> the ide interface and reboot it using VirtIO after the drivers have been >> installed, but I wanted to know if there is an easier way to do this. >> >> Thank you in advanced, >> Nikos >> >> [1] https://github.com/libguestfs/hivex/blob/master/sh/example6 >> [2] >> https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/virt-v2v.git/tree/lib/Sys/VirtConvert/C... > Rich. >