ChrisTitusTech
Feature: Integrate VirtIO Guest Drivers in Config Tab
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Add virtio drivers quietly using the fedora virtio installer: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.262-2/virtio-win-guest-tools.exe
Describe the solution you'd like Auto install for a new windows VM that is using QEMU
Might add the suggestion of adding virtio drivers to the MicroWin builder, as well.
Might add the suggestion of adding virtio drivers to the MicroWin builder, as well.
The VirtIO drivers are also available using the ISO from https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/stable-virtio/virtio-win.iso. This might be a better solution because this link is a permalink for the latest stable release, and the drivers are bundled inside without the need for an installer. For MicroWin, this could also be necessary because the VirtIO SCSI drivers need to be available for any drives to be detected during first-stage OOBE. For Windows 11 amd64, the SCSI drivers are located at D:\vioscsi\w11\amd64\vioscsi.inf (substitute D: for the ISO)
If the ISO is mounted to a VM, then we could add automatic installation of the guest tools to the unattend similar to https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/ The SCSI drivers would still need to be bundled though.
@ChrisTitusTech, for MicroWin, this is partly resolved by the 2025 preparation PR (not linking it here in case it closes this issue). In the future, we could either modify the Windows PE startup commands to add the drivers automatically with drvload or add the drivers while processing the image with DISM. The installation image will have the drivers installed by DISM.
Since I primarily use VMware for testing, I can't fully test that implementation, so you will have to do it when I make the respective PR for it.
