Hi Guys,

I'm having difficulty getting Centos 6.2 to spawn a Windows 2008 Server R2 instance with KVM, using VIRTIO.

The problem I hit is when I get to the stage in the Windows Installer where I need to "Load Drivers", I point to the drivers and it doesn't load. Instead I get the following response from Windows "No signed device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drifves, and then click OK". I am able to successfully browse to the drivers.

I have tried point to both the drivers within RHN (virtio-win-1.4.0-1.el6.noarch) and the Fedora drivers (http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/virtio-win-0.1-22.iso). I get the same result with both.


The command I am running to install is:

virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name bert --ram 16384 --arch x86_64 --cpuset=0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14 --vcpus 8 --cdrom /dev/cdrom --disk path=/dev/vg_data/bert,device=disk,bus=virtio --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/virtio-win-0.1-22.iso,device=cdrom,perms=ro --os-type windows --os-variant win2k8 --network bridge:virbr0 --vnc

This command produces the following qemu-kvm command:

/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.2.0 -enable-kvm -m 16384 -smp 8,sockets=8,cores=1,threads=1 -name bert -uuid 63d5761e-60c0-6ecb-8c17-e1a9344ee34e -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/bert.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime,driftfix=slew -no-reboot -no-shutdown -drive file=/dev/vg_data/bert,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=2 -drive file=/dev/cdrom,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-0-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/virtio-win-0.1-22.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -netdev tap,fd=22,id=hostnet0 -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:5b:c6:b2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga std -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5



-- Linux beast.moo.local 2.6.32-220.4.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 14 04:00:16 GMT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux



Any help appreciated. I am unable to get this one resolved..


Cheers