CentOS virt - Jun 2015 - Windows 10 tech preview build 10130

Hi Everyone,

Has anyone managed to install Windows 10 tech preview build 10130 as a
KVM on a CentOS 6 host? I'm having problems that I haven't been able to
get past.

I can get the CD to boot and the install process to begin, but Windows
keeps complaining about missing drivers. I've unsuccessfully tried the
VirtIO ISOs from the Fedora project.  The images I tried were:

virtio-win-0.1-100.iso
virtio-win-0.1.105.iso
virtio-win-0.1.96.iso

I have two IDE CD-ROMs attached which appears to be working fine
(otherwise the installer wouldn't start and I wouldn't be able to
traverse the VirtIO ISO). The NIC was an e1000, but I changed it to
rtl8139. I've changed the HD from IDE, to Virtio iscsi to Virtio disk
and none of that has seemed to help.

I'd appreciate some pointers/tips.

Regards,

Ranbir

-- 
Kanwar R.S. Sandhu

On 06/29/2015 01:27 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Has anyone managed to install Windows 10 tech preview build 10130 as a
> KVM on a CentOS 6 host? I'm having problems that I haven't been
able to
> get past.
>
> I can get the CD to boot and the install process to begin, but Windows
> keeps complaining about missing drivers. I've unsuccessfully tried the
> VirtIO ISOs from the Fedora project.  The images I tried were:
>
> virtio-win-0.1-100.iso
> virtio-win-0.1.105.iso
> virtio-win-0.1.96.iso
>
> I have two IDE CD-ROMs attached which appears to be working fine
> (otherwise the installer wouldn't start and I wouldn't be able to
> traverse the VirtIO ISO). The NIC was an e1000, but I changed it to
> rtl8139. I've changed the HD from IDE, to Virtio iscsi to Virtio disk
> and none of that has seemed to help.
>
> I'd appreciate some pointers/tips.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ranbir
>
Hi Ranbir,

I've installed it on a KVM guest on a CentOS 7 host.

I haven't switched to VirtIO drivers yet except for the graphics 
(spice/QXL), so that I could resize the screen, etc.

I've always had more success using the drivers obtained from running the 
spice guest tools vs. the virtio-win stuff.  I use:

http://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-0.100.exe

I did have problems with blue screens at boot (to even get the 
installation going) until I changed the CPU type to "kvm64"

-Greg

On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 13:47 -0700, Greg Bailey wrote:
> I've installed it on a KVM guest on a CentOS 7 host.
I was hoping it wasn't going to come to that. That is, I hope it's not a
CentOS 6 issue.
> I've always had more success using the drivers obtained from running
the
> spice guest tools vs. the virtio-win stuff.  I use:
> 
>
http://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-0.100.exe

The thing is I can't even get the install going. Windows complains that
drivers are missing and won't tell me what for!! WTF.


-- 
Kanwar R.S. Sandhu