XCP-ng
    • Categories
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Groups
    • Register
    • Login

    XCP-ng Windows PV Drivers 8.2.2

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Development
    48 Posts 11 Posters 33.3k Views 6 Watching
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • ruskofdR Offline
      ruskofd
      last edited by

      Tested on Windows 10 1903 (French locale as usual), seems good too and easier than ever.
      I let you know if something bad happens.

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
      • B Offline
        Biggen
        last edited by

        So I haven't been able to install these drivers on Win 10 Pro 64-bit build 1903.
        Running the setup.exe file, it goes through the motions until I get an error box that says "Windows Management Agent failed to install".

        I then re-run setup and choose "Repair" and it goes through the motions and finally tells me at the end it was installed. However, upon reboot, I'm greeted with a BSOD and the stop code is "Inaccessible Boot Device.".

        This is a brand new Win 10 install. I made sure to grab system updates first. I have to revert the snapshot to get the system back.

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • olivierlambertO Online
          olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
          last edited by

          What's the OS language? (yeah, it might be important in Windows world…)

          B 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • B Offline
            Biggen @olivierlambert
            last edited by

            @olivierlambert said in XCP-ng Windows PV Drivers 8.2.2:

            What's the OS language? (yeah, it might be important in Windows world…)

            Its English. Just plain ol'e English USA x64 Win 10 Pro.

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • olivierlambertO Online
              olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
              last edited by

              Okay I'll try again to test to see if I can reproduce, but last time I did it worked well. Are you using the Win 10 template?

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • B Offline
                Biggen
                last edited by

                Yes. When I created the VM, I chose the Win 10 64-bit template.

                Are there separate drivers? One from the Win update repo and then this one?

                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • olivierlambertO Online
                  olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                  last edited by

                  Don't use both! From Windows updates, they are Citrix drivers. They can enter in conflict with ours. Despite the code is the same, the signature is not and they probably can compete each other.

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • B Offline
                    Biggen
                    last edited by

                    Well then that is the problem. The "Get Windows Update" is defaulted to "On" I think. I didn't know they essentially do similar things.

                    I need to create a new VM then and make sure I turn off that feature before booting the Win 10 image. Then I can install your set.

                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                    • olivierlambertO Online
                      olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                      last edited by

                      It's not defaulted on "on", except if it's a custom template. If you chose to have Windows update driver, then don't install PV drivers manually.

                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • olivierlambertO Online
                        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                        last edited by

                        I did a test on my side: works well with our driver package:

                        win10.png

                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                        • B Offline
                          Biggen
                          last edited by Biggen

                          Mine shows "Allow Windows update" or something similar and I didn't enable that.

                          I know I used a template. I'll remove and recreate the VM and see if it defaults the Win update setting.

                          I appreciate you checking. Good to know it's working. I just need to see why Windows update pulled it in.

                          Is there any difference between the two or is it same things with different names?

                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                          • olivierlambertO Online
                            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                            last edited by

                            Yes, just leave "Windows Update tools" disabled, that's it 🙂

                            B 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                            • B Offline
                              Biggen
                              last edited by

                              Thanks Olivier. Loving the lab I setup so far. Really impressed with the entire infrastructure you guys have managed to put together.

                              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                              • B Offline
                                Biggen @olivierlambert
                                last edited by Biggen

                                @olivierlambert So I just created a new Win 10 VM and made sure to use the template. I created this VM in the XCP-NG XenCenter. I then went into XOA and "Windows Update Tools" is checked to the on position by default.

                                This is what the problem I had earlier was. The VM defaults to grabbing the guest tools from the WU server. So if you boot up the 1st time with this configuration, it will grab the Citrix tools 1st and you can't install the community tools.

                                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                • F Offline
                                  FPIT
                                  last edited by

                                  Will the XCP-NG Windows PV Drivers fixed the network bottleneck issues? I have XenServer drivers installed and a 1Gb connection but only getting 100kbps speed from any of the windows VMs

                                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                  • olivierlambertO Online
                                    olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                                    last edited by olivierlambert

                                    @FPIT with PV tools, you should have 1Gbit network transfer rate, yes. This speed you have is more like the default emulated hardware.

                                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                    • F Offline
                                      FPIT
                                      last edited by

                                      @olivierlambert I have Xenserver PV drivers but it says they are from 2017 and I have a windows 10 computer hosting quickbooks and an employee is having terrible performance issues but we didnt have these performance issues with Hyper-V. Could it be related to the PV drivers being out of date?

                                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                      • olivierlambertO Online
                                        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                                        last edited by

                                        Check in the device manager to see if all PV drivers are installed. Eg the network interface shouldn't be Realtek 8139 but Xen PV NIC or something like that.

                                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                        • F Offline
                                          FPIT
                                          last edited by

                                          Yea I did the windowsupdate checkbox in XO for the windows computers, but we still seem to have the same issues. I saw that broadcom NICs have performance problems with Xen and in general so that might be it. Im going to update the firmware and see and also add another network card to see if its the NICs in general. But im also gonna test the XCP-NG version windows drivers to see if they may be more compatible.

                                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                          • olivierlambertO Online
                                            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                                            last edited by

                                            Please tell us about the NIC name in the device manager.

                                            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                            • First post
                                              Last post