Vista - drivers on W2K8 R2 - hyper-v

Hi

I was not able to install all drivers on Windows Server 2008 R2 core edition.
For example I wasn't able to install the intel chipset driver.
But the device manager (remotly connected in read only view) shows only one
PCI device which has a little problem.
Since I want to use the machine as the hyper-v host I don't know, if I can
count on this machine as a stable hyper-v host when not all drivers are
installed/available.

In fact the first test with hyper-v virtual machines has been really
successful.
Will I have any problems, when not all drivers are present on the host?

Patrick

"Patrick D." <PatrickD@newsgroup> ha scritto nel messaggio
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It depends on the driver; you could.

Usually Windows Server 2008 R2 can correctly identify and use out-of-the-box
the most recent Intel chipsets, so the problem shouldn't be there; what kind
of device is that one that's not recognized?

BTW, how do you install drivers in a Server Core installation?


Massimo

Hi

It seems, that the intel chipset driver for chipset 5000X is not integrated
in Windows Server 2008 R2. And the driver from Intel is not available.
Does that mean, that no system with the new server OS, where chipset drivers
are still in production can be used on a productive machine?

. . .in fact the described PCI device above with problems does not exist:
The machine has no PCI device mounted. But the device manager shows the
interrogation mark: The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)
PCI bus 7, device 0, function 1

Perhaps an issue of the missed chipset driver?
Can we run a stable system without chipset driver?

Patrick

"Massimo" wrote:

"Patrick D." <PatrickD@newsgroup> ha scritto nel messaggio
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Normally, if you install the latest Intel Chipset Software Installation
Utility (available here:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Deta...&DwnldID=16023)
it contains drivers for *all* Intel chipset, both server and workstation,
for *all* Windows operating systems.
"PCI devide" can mean almost anything in Windows device manager, not merely
a physical PCI card in a PCI slot.
You surely need chipset drivers here.
The problem is... how do you install them in a Server Core setup? I'd like
to know that, too.


Massimo

"Massimo" <barone@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:ef0BBckIKHA.3000@newsgroupIf you don't have a network connection, you need to put the files you
need in an ISO file and connect the ISO to the cd drive in the vm.

"Bill Grant" <not.available@newsgroup> ha scritto nel messaggio
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I was meaning "how do you install them on the *HOST*"...


Massimo

Bill Grant wrote:These are not the drivers: this Intel package only updates
the Windows INF files for the various chipsets...

Regards,
-Roger
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Bill Grant wrote:These are not the drivers: this Intel package only updates
the Windows INF files for the various chipsets...

Regards,
-Roger
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You use the command line driver install utility (pnputil.exe) that comes
with Vista/ and Server 2008 of course.
I do sympathize - took me a day or so to learn of it's existance

syntax help is displayed by typing pnputil.exe /? of course but basically
you will use it thus:
pnputil.exe -i -a x:\MyDriverPackage\MyDriverPackage.inf

Cake.

It can also be used to pre-stage drivers for PnP devices on end user
machines by excluding the -i flag.


"Massimo" <barone@newsgroup> wrote in message
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"Steve Buckley" <mrnecros(remove-this)@hotmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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Nice tip, thank you.
As for most of Vista's new command line utilities... I spent a good part of
a day looking for where had PROXYCFG gone :-/


Massimo