Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO windows driver: viostor.sys not post-installable

[Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>]

On 05/29/2015 10:43 AM, Philipp Hahn wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we tried to migrate some Windows 2008 and 2012 VMs from Xen to KVM, but
> installing the VirtIO viostor.sys driver fails, because the signature of
> the driver doesn't seem to match what's stored in the corresponding .cat
> file.
> 
> On the other hand installing the drivers during a fresh install from the
> beginning never had any problems.
> 
> 
> We use
> <https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.104-1/virtio-win-0.1.104.iso>
> but also tried "virtio-win-0.1.103.iso" and "virtio-win-0.1-81.iso".
> 
> Running the following command on 0.1.104 prints (among others) the
> following sha1hash:
>> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\bin\x86\signtool.exe" /verify
> /v /kp E:\NetKVM\2k12\amd64\netkvm.sys
> ...
>> Hash of file (sha1): 135E3AA23217610AEE8046F68550B0BA86F4EAE6
> 
>> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\bin\x86\signtool.exe" /verify
> /v /kp E:\viostor\2k12\amd64\viostor.sys
> ...
>> Hash of file (sha1): EF11F5E539EEE0A9DB6DF3710A0DAA35066C5607
> 
> Looking into the corresponding .cat "Security Catalog File"
> - netkvm.cat contains the above given hash for netkvm.sys,
> - viostor.cat contains 55FC4DA2EE96ECC3FD4865680436DCDA6B8C6BDD instead!
> 
> Running "sha1sum" on Linux print some completely different hashes, so I
> don't know what the Microsoft tool actually hash:
> 
>> # sha1sum /cdrom/NetKVM/2k12/amd64/netkvm.sys /cdrom/viostor/2k12/amd64/viostor.sys 
>> 1aa91c8e1d7680457d92c1875810a79f68af536d  /cdrom/NetKVM/2k12/amd64/netkvm.sys
>> f39bc2b561091addfcac30e370227c91700d2698  /cdrom/viostor/2k12/amd64/viostor.sys
> 
> Is this a known issue?
> 
> Are there some (working) alternatives?
> 
> Are there some Linux tools to work with the .cat files and signatures to
> make sure they match?
> 
> Is there some better mailing list for VirtIO Windows driver issues?
> 

There isn't a specific mailing. For technical issues the closest this is
qemu-devel or kvm list, but this seems more like a packaging/build system issue.

I'd suggest filing a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com, product=Virtualization Tools,
component=virtio-win, and dump all the info you posted above. Vadim is pretty
quick to respond in my experience.

Thanks,
Cole

> 
> Some more background for our migration procedure:
> 
> - The VM was installed some years are on Xen.
> - The GPLPV drivers were added afterwards.
> - For the migration the GPLPV drivers were disabled and then removed.
> - A 2nd VirtIO hard-disk was added in KVM to trigger Windows to request
> the virstor driver.
> 
> If you need any more data, just ask.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Philipp Hahn
> 
> PS: data was copied by hand from Windows, so it might contains
> copy-paste-errors.
>