WindowsXP guest can't install the RedHat VirtIO SCSI controller -- What do I do?
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WindowsXP guest can't install the RedHat VirtIO SCSI controller -- What do I do?
My WindowsXP home guest is showing this error message in the Found New Hardware Wizard:
Quote:
Cannot Start this Hardware
There is a problem installing this hardware:
RedHat VirtIO SCSI controller
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware.
The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)
I'm trying to use a VirtIO driver in KVM for a raw disk image in my WindowsXP guest on my Fedora17 64-bit host. I started at this page and followed the link to get virtio-win-0.1-30.iso.
I created a second disk image and added it to the command line: qemu-kvm ... -drive file='...',index=1,media=disk,if=virtio ...
As I hoped, Windows noticed it and popped up the Found New Hardware Wizard. My command-line also had the above .iso file, so I told it not to go to Windows Update. It found the driver and apparently tried to install it and displayed that error.
Is there another driver around that I haven't found?
Has anyone gotten a VirtIO disk driver to work with a WindowsXP guest? How?
I didn't pay enough attention of the blog to figure out what he's doing or what the VMware connection is, but that floppy image satisfied WindowsXP under KVM.
I say partial success, because while Windows is happy with the installation of the driver for the virtio hard drive, I still can't access the drive. "My Computer" shows only one hard drive--my C: drive.
I didn't pay enough attention of the blog to figure out what he's doing or what the VMware connection is, but that floppy image satisfied WindowsXP under KVM.
I say partial success, because while Windows is happy with the installation of the driver for the virtio hard drive, I still can't access the drive. "My Computer" shows only one hard drive--my C: drive.
thanks, this one help me with the controller
after that i was able to see the drive under Drive-Manager
Mount it as a cd image, then do a driver update on the device, make sure you have "removable media" checked. It will find the driver.
An update! Good.
Bad--It doesn't work for me. It wouldn't boot, so I had to go back to the last known good configuration.
And now every time I boot, it finds new hardware and asks me to put in that CD. Using Windows is always frustrating. How can I tell it "NO! And don't ask again!"?
An update! Good.
Bad--It doesn't work for me. It wouldn't boot, so I had to go back to the last known good configuration.
And now every time I boot, it finds new hardware and asks me to put in that CD. Using Windows is always frustrating. How can I tell it "NO! And don't ask again!"?
That sounds simple, but if I try to let it finish, it pops up a box saying "Please insert the Compact Disk labeled 'Red Hat VirtIO SCSI controller Installation Disk' into your CD-ROM drive (D:) and ten click OK." If I complete it again, it will crash again. If I cancel again, it will demand it again the next time I reboot.
I've run into this problem before. Once you install a particular driver, Windows knows it exists and if it's not the current driver, it demands to reinstall it--even if it caused a crash, as is the case here. I think I solved this once before by rooting through the Windows directories and deleting an offending file, but that's colossal a bother.
That's one of the reasons I say that using Windows is always frustrating.
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