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jwbensley
Asked: 2012-09-04 09:06:57 +0800 CST

Can't Install Win2k8 On KVM - Classic 0x80070013 error

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I am trying to install Win2k8 Std as a KVM guest on Debian Squeeze.

As you can see from these screen shots;

  1. No drives are detected (I have blanked out a 20GB image for testing) - screenshot1
  2. I am using this driver CD: - screenshot2
  3. I have signed the Win7 driver (I assume this was the most appropriate one?) - screenshot3
  4. I can now see an unpartitioned drive - screenshot4
  5. But I can't create a new partition on here, getting the error code 0x80070013 - screenshot5

I have had this error code before but only on a physical server. If I remember correctly it was complaining because the disks were partitioned as GPT (because it was a server that was being re-purposed) so repartitioning with an MS-DOS table fixed that. This is a blank disk image though. What is wrong here, and how can I correct this?

Thank you.

UPDATE

I have booted the VM with a Gparted-Live disk and formatted this volume with an MS-DOS partitioning scheme, and a single 20GB NTFS file system. Now when I boot the Win2k8 CD, load my drivers, I get a different error. As you can see at the bottom of screenshot6

"Windows cannot be installed on this hard drive space. Windows must be installed to a partition formatted as NTFS".

Clicking format produces the error (0x80004005) on the screen, so I think this is still a driver issue because Windows can see the drive but not interact with it properly. Is that insane thinking?

windows-server-2008

3 Answers

  1. That (VERY UNHELPFUL) error means you forgot to put the Windows install disk back in.

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  2. Best Answer

    After a LOT of Googling, I learned that 0x80070013 means: The media is write-protected. Make sure you didn't set the hard drive as read-only when you configured the virtual machine.

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  3. The way I did it is the following:

    1. I overwritten the disk image (when the VM was down) by hand just to be sure.

      qemu-img create -f raw disk0 40G

    2. I chose ide as a disk type.

    3. Did the install as normal, ide drivers are integrated in the installer.

    4. After completing the install I mounted the CD with virtio drivers and added a new disk with a virtio type.

      # socat - UNIX-CONNECT:/var/run/ganeti/kvm-hypervisor/ctrl/somehost.monitor
(qemu) pci_add auto storage file=somedisk,if=virtio

    5. The new hardware found dialog came up and I installed the driver successfully.

    6. Starting the VM again with the main disk (the 2nd disk in not needed anymore) in virtio mode should work.
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