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DISCUSSION Riccardo Veraldi 6 participants 9 messages May 6, 2010 – May 11, 2010 KVM

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Hello,
if I install virtio-win drivers on windows 2008 Server R2, I have the problem of signed device drivers. I Can install the drivers but Windows 2008 server refuses to use them unless I start
the machine pressing F8 every time at each reboot bypassing the checking of signed certified drivers, and this is annoying, since I Cannot reboot the virtual machien automatically.

Anyone solved this issue ?
thanks

Rick

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Riccardo Veraldi
Sent: Donnerstag, 06. Mai 2010 14:10
To: [email protected]
Subject: virtio-win problem

Hello,
if I install virtio-win drivers on windows 2008 Server R2, I have the problem of signed device drivers.
I Can install the drivers but Windows 2008 server refuses to use them unless I start
the machine pressing F8 every time at each reboot bypassing the checking
of signed certified drivers, and this is annoying,
since I Cannot reboot the virtual machien automatically.

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Anyone solved this issue ?

Redhat released signed drivers working on win2008r2, but no public download or free use (you need a subscription, it's a special license)

Or you need to follow the howtos on the KVM wiki pages, http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers

Br, Martin

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Maurer
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 5:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: virtio-win problem

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Riccardo Veraldi
Sent: Donnerstag, 06. Mai 2010 14:10
To: [email protected]
Subject: virtio-win problem

Hello,
if I install virtio-win drivers on windows 2008 Server R2, I have the problem of signed device drivers.
I Can install the drivers but Windows 2008 server refuses to use them unless I start
the machine pressing F8 every time at each reboot bypassing the checking
of signed certified drivers, and this is annoying,
since I Cannot reboot the virtual machien automatically.

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Anyone solved this issue ?

Redhat released signed drivers working on win2008r2, but no public download or free use (you need a subscription, it's a special license)

Or you need to follow the howtos on the KVM wiki pages,
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers

[YV] You could test sign the drivers with our own certificate
(http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33920573) and enable the usage of test signed drivers (Bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON).

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Br, Martin

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Quoted 9 lines · Yan Vugenfirer
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Redhat released signed drivers working on win2008r2, but no public download or free use (you need a subscription, it's a special license)

Or you need to follow the howtos on the KVM wiki pages,
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers

[YV] You could test sign the drivers with our own certificate
(http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33920573) and enable the usage of test signed drivers (Bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON).

Which, most probably, makes production usage of such system unsupported.

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Quoted 8 lines · Riccardo Veraldi

Hello,
if I install virtio-win drivers on windows 2008 Server R2, I have the problem of signed device drivers.
I Can install the drivers but Windows 2008 server refuses to use them unless I start
the machine pressing F8 every time at each reboot bypassing the checking of signed certified drivers, and this is annoying,
since I Cannot reboot the virtual machien automatically.

I have some compiled and signed here:

http://theiggy.com/tmp/virtio-20100228.zip

These are not guaranteed to work and they will probably kill kittens. That said, I've had luck with them and had only a few reports of things not working (mostly with the balloon drivers).

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Anyone solved this issue ?
thanks

Rick

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Quoted 4 lines · Brian Jackson

http://theiggy.com/tmp/virtio-20100228.zip
These are not guaranteed to work and they will probably kill kittens. That said, I've had luck with them and had only a few reports of things not working (mostly with the balloon drivers).

XP32 drivers from this pack didn't work for me, but Vista64 work fine.

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Quoted 2 lines · Brian Jackson

What about the XP32 drivers from:
http://theiggy.com/tmp/virtio-20091208.zip

This is what I currently use on XP, and it works fine (I think I mentioned this on IRC - my nickname's ender` there).

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Quoted 6 lines · Jernej Simončič
Quoted 2 lines · Brian Jackson

What about the XP32 drivers from:
http://theiggy.com/tmp/virtio-20091208.zip

This is what I currently use on XP, and it works fine (I think I mentioned this on IRC - my nickname's ender` there).

Ahh, didn't make the connection. I'm still working on new drivers that hopefully will be fixed.