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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Yaodong Yang <yaodong.yangy@icloud.com>
Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"qemu-discuss@nongnu.org" <qemu-discuss@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio with Windows 8.
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 13:45:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130909114508.GA20215@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C31D73F2-751E-4149-8522-8C71856D8CD6@icloud.com>

On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 12:02:57AM -0500, Yaodong Yang wrote:
> 1. I create a raw image named as win8.img, using the following command:
> /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-img create -f raw win8.img 20G
> 
> 2. I try to install win8 with the following command, but I failed several times.
> 
> sudo /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -drive file=./win8.img,if=virtio,cache=none -cdrom ./win8.iso -boot d -m 2048.
> 
> 3. I try the same command but with if=ide, it works. 
> 
> Could someone tell me the reason for this failure? 

The Windows installer will not detect virtio-blk disks since Windows
does not come with virtio drivers by default.

You must provide the virtio-win drivers ISO during the installation:

https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/

Watch for the screen where Windows prompts you for a driver disk and put
in the virtio-win ISO.

Stefan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-09 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-09  5:02 [Qemu-devel] virtio with Windows 8 Yaodong Yang
2013-09-09  5:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-discuss] " xuanmao_001
2013-09-09 11:45 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]

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