Playing around with Harvester and wanted to create a Win10 VM. I downloaded the latest ISO and used the built-in windows template, but it doesn’t ever seem to be able to find the boot device:
I tried slipstreaming the VirtIO drivers into the ISO, but that didn’t seem to help either. Should this work or am I missing something simple?
I doesn’t look like there is support yet for OVMF and UEFI firmware.
Hi,
I don’t know if you still face this issue or not, but with Harvester 1.0.0 and custom settings for the firmware, the Windows 10 VM can boot on UEFI.
Let me know if you need directions for running it.
Best regards,
Nuno
It’s 2024 and I’m having essentially the same problem.
I didn’t use the template becasue the docker registry listed on the container under volumes doesn’t resolve to a maintained SUSE site (everything moved to Fedora’s virtio). I also tried using EFI, it says it cannot find the drives (I’ve added virtio as one of the drives), I can’t get to install.
When I run it in GPT mode, it just keeps going through the initial install wizard, I can add a disk, and then it gets to the second install step, about 2% in and restarts. Then I go to restart and it reloads the install wizard, but even sees the 50MB reserved partition. It just never gets past initial start up. Config is as follows:
8 CPU
20GB RAM
100GB Windows10 ISO volume from cd-rom
5GB virtio volume from cd-rom
500GB disk using longhorn
EFI/GPT have both been tried. No luck.
What am I missing here?
On harvester v1.3.1, following the steps from this doc, I am able to create a windows vm successfully.Can you try this ?
