Vadim Rozenfeld

E:\Balloon\2k8r2\amd64\ from "latest" (https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.215-2/) should work. The balloon driver there is from build 174 cross-signed with RH SHA1 certificate issued by DigiCert Do you have any problems installing the balloon...

@MohammadrezaNasrabadi No worries. Do you have the balloon device attached to your VM? Can you please share the qemu command line and the qemu version? Thanks, Vadim.

@MohammadrezaNasrabadi Thanks, I need to check it then. bugcheck code 7E usually happens when installing Win8 drivers on Win7/WS2008R2 platforms. https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/issues/61 Best, Vadim.

@MohammadrezaNasrabadi Confirmed. Ping me at vrozenfe_at_redhat_dot_com Vadim.

@jakub-vavra-cz Confirmed. Thank you for reporting this issue. Vadim.

@rgl Hi Rui, Can you please share setup api log file ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/install/setupapi-device-installation-log-entries ) ? At least the section that covers uninstall with the following attempt to install netkvm driver?...

@Ricky-Tigg The drivers in virtio-win-0.1.215-2.noarch go as following: - the drivers for WinXP..Win7 are cross-signed, - the drivers for Win8(.1) and WS2012R2 are test-signed, - the Drivers for Win10/Win11/WS2016/WS2016/WS20122 are...

@Cameronsplaze Honestly. I don't know how virt-install treats "heads=2", but virtio gpu is capable to handle multihead configuration as long as one device is defined as virtio-vga and another on...

@x2c3z4 What is the qemu command line? Did you try using max_sectors to limit the number of physical breaks? Best, Vadim.

@x2c3z4 Can you try setting max_sectors to 32 or 64 in the command line and see if helps to solve the problem?