Installation of Windows VM on Freenas 11.3

[roblojik]

Hi all,

Dug out my old Gen8 1610T Proliant server and have managed to upgrade it up to 11.3. This then gave me the idea to have a virtual machine running windows 10 off of it.

I have got through the UEFI issue with the boot from file and am getting the windows logo appear. Almost immediately though I get a blue screen (see attached), which has me a bit flummoxed!

Could anyone help me out and point me in the right direction? Thank you!

 

[sretalla]

What disk and network drivers are you selecting for the VM?

 

[roblojik]

Thanks sretalla for coming back.

I just selected a folder from one of the pools, and haven't seen anywhere as yet to put or load the drivers.....

 

[sretalla]

I mean the adapter type for the NIC (under VM | devices... can be VirtIO or Intel e1000) and the mode for the disk (AHCI or VirtIO).

 

[roblojik]

Sorry :) I chose AHCI and the Intel e1000

Thank you so much

 

[sretalla]

You should try virtIO for the NIC and go and get the Fedora VirtIO driver to install manually on Windows after it boots (since the included driver will crash after a while under load).

 

[roblojik]

Still doing the same thing unfortunately. Thanks for the thought though!

 

[sretalla]

You may get some improvement by going through the F8 process and loading the drivers there already, perhaps also switching the disk to VirtIO in that case.

 

[roblojik]

Thanks again but when I do f8 it goes black and then back to this screen :(

 

[roblojik]

One thing I noticed was that on the bhyve screen it says that I have 0.00ghz and 0mb ram. Is that significant?

 

[roblojik]

Ok so user error on my part. The iso I was selecting wasn't a full iso!

I reuploaded another iso and now got to the driver stage. I uploaded the virtio iso but it is saying that it can't find the drivers.

Should I try the hp support pages?

Thanks again

 

[sretalla]

I uploaded the virtio iso but it is saying that it can't find the drivers.

You need to extract the driver from the iso to provide it to the install process. (or mount the iso to see the contents and browse to it).

 

[Yorick]

I made a quick video to show how to install a Win10 VM with VirtIO drivers. https://youtu.be/YQk6jGJPA_Y

 

[roblojik]

Thank you both for your help. I redownloaded everything and I now have a Windows VM up and running!