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

[Matt (CC'd) can probably answer this one better than anyone ...]

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.