[vfio-users] cannot boot windows guest after update

[thibaut noah]

What do you mean by offline windows copy? This is a native windows 10
install.
I boot it native all the time to do benchmarks and all, never had any issue
before the update.

I assume what you mean by boot drivers is virtio drivers?

2016-05-05 9:45 GMT+02:00 Torbjorn Jansson <
torbjorn.jansson at mbox200.swipnet.se>:

> On 2016-05-05 00:32, thibaut noah wrote:
>
>> By modifying my xml i managed to go into repair mode, trying to just run
>> windows 10 get me a blue screen with inaccessible boot device code.
>> Looking into that.
>>
>> 2016-05-05 0:15 GMT+02:00 thibaut noah <thibaut.noah at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi ! So i use the repair upgrade feature of windows 10 enterprise to
>>> update to the new build.
>>> Since it was bugging on the vm i booted in native in order to do the
>>> update.
>>> I reinstalled grub afterwards to be able to boot linux and now i can't
>>> launch windows anymore from qemu.
>>> So, what happened? is it a problem with the drivers not properly set
>>> because i did the update in native?
>>>
>>>
>>
> if you booted the "vm" native and did the upgrade, the upgrade process
> probably screwed up your boot drivers.
> i'm not so sure that booting a vm native is a good idea, especially with
> windows.
>
> assuming the problem is just a few missing drivers and you can get into
> recovery mode on the vm, then you can try the dism trick and inject boot
> drivers to an offline copy of windows.
>
> this can be a handy trick if you for example move a harddrive from one
> computer to another and get inaccessible boot device and dont want to
> reinstall.
>
> the basic process is something like this:
> boot to recovery and make sure you can access both the windows
> installation and the drivers needed to boot.
> open up a cmd window and take a look at the command line options for dism.
> if i remeber correctly you need to specify where the offline windows copy
> is and where the drivers are located.
> you should be able to specify a root folder or similar where the drivers
> are and get it to inject all drivers in that folder tree.
>
> then reboot an hope for the best.
>
>
>
>
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