[CentOS-virt] Red Hat VirtIO SCSI pass-through controller

Wed Mar 15 16:46:27 UTC 2017
Gena Makhomed <gmm at csdoc.com>

On 15.03.2017 17:42, Jean-Marc LIGER wrote:

>> When I use "VirtIO SCSI controller" in virt-manager,
>> and when I install Windows Server 2012 R2 -
>> I can use only viostor driver and can't use vioscsi driver,
>> Windows Server 2012 R2 can't load vioscsi driver (?)
>> from virtio-win.iso and did not see virtual hard disks
>> with vioscsi driver. Only viostor driver work normally.

[...]

>> Additional info:
>> ================
>>
>> virtio-win.iso version: virtio-win-0.1.126.iso
>> from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers
>
> Maybe you can try the lastest virtio-win-0.1.133.iso :
> https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-virtio/virtio-win.iso

Ok, I tested with virtio-win.iso versions

0.1.96-1
0.1.102-1
0.1.110-1
0.1.126-2
0.1.133-2

- nothing help, I can't load vioscsi driver in Windows Server 2012 R2.

Also I tested Windows Server 2008 R2 - also can't load vioscsi driver.

Also I tested with qemu-kvm-ev-2.6.0-28.el7_3.3.1.x86_64 - also can't 
load vioscsi driver.

Also I tested two different CentOS 7.3 servers, with different CPUs:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1650 v2 @ 3.50GHz
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  C2750  @ 2.40GHz
- also can't load vioscsi driver in Windows Server 2012 R2 setup.

Why I can't load vioscsi driver in Windows Virtual Machine?

I am doing something wrong?

> Or try to reinstall the latest spice guest tools 0.132 :
> https://www.spice-space.org/download/binaries/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe

I can't install Windows Server 2012 R2 with vioscsi driver,
how spice guest tools can help with it?

>> OS: CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)
>>
>> QEMU: qemu-kvm-1.5.3-126.el7_3.5.x86_64
>
> Why don't you upgrade qemu-kvm to qemu-kvm-ev ?
>

Already upgrade, it does not help.

-- 
Best regards,
  Gena