Yes, I tried that as well. Tried:

"Other PV 32 bit"
"Other PV 64 bit"
"Other VirtIO PV"
"Windows PV"

The other pv 64 and 32 bit are trying to load a CentOS template for some
reason. The Windows PV boots bit the PV drivers are still not there.

I am going to try a couple of other things.


-----Original Message-----
From: Ruben Bosch <[email protected]> 
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2023 5:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PV Drivers on VMs created through CS

Hi,

Did you check this document?
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/adminguide/templates.html You
need to prepare your VM and specify the OS type as "Other PV (xx-bit)"

Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,

Ruben Bosch
CLDIN

> On 23 Oct 2023, at 23:05, <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> 
> 
> A few weeks back I sent a message about how my VMs created in CS do 
> not honor the installed PV drivers. To recap, I use XCP-NG for my 
> hypervisors, and I use a lab install to create templates that I then 
> upload into the CS console. This lab XCP-NG cluster is the same 
> version and patch level as the production CS hosts. On these 
> templates, I add the Windows PV drivers so the VM runs with the best 
> driver support. You can see the proper drivers when you go into the 
> device manager, and you get the message in XOA that the agent is 
> installed. So as an example, you see the NIC as an XCP-NG Virt NIC, the
XCP-NG storage bus, etc.
> 
> 
> 
> I then sysprep this image and shutdown and then export the VHD and 
> import into CS. But here is where it gets weird. After uploading this 
> VHD into CS and then creating a VM from that template, the PV drivers 
> are not used. It reverts to the Realtek NIC, the storage driver is 
> gone, and XOA does not show it has an agent. So its like the drivers 
> are not even installed. To make sure its not my hardware, if I import 
> the same VHD manually into one of the CS hosts directly and create a 
> fully default VM with that template, all the drivers are still present.
> 
> 
> 
> So my question is, is CS creating the VM in such a way that it is not 
> allowing the driver use? Are there any settings I can look at to find 
> out why this is happening? I do check the slider bar that says 
> "Original XS Version is 6.1+". Should I not do this?
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you guys for any help.
> 


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