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I just installed CentOS 7 and tried to use Gnome Boxes to create some virtual machines. As long as I stick to other Linux distributions everything is fine. But I really do have trouble installing Windows 7 or 8 in a box. Boxes does not allow me to mount the VirtIO ISO and it doesn't look like Windows is aware of the virtual controller Boxes uses.

To workaround this I installed RedHat's Virtual Machine Manager. But, unfortunately, I do have the same problem here. I mounted the VirtIO drivers disk on a second IDE CDROM which worked. But, no matter what controller type I use (IDE, SATA, VirtIO), the Windows setup won't use any of the drivers on the disk. It keeps telling me, that there are no suitable drivers on the disk.

Any hints would bei much appreciated.

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  • It would help if you could show us exactly what's failing and how you configured the VM. See here for a walkthrough of how this is supposed to go.
    – Michael Hampton
    Jul 20, 2014 at 15:39
  • What details do you need exactly? I used the VMM GUI to create the VM and left it to the standard settings in all cases. Nothing fancy. I could post a config file here if this would help.
    – Ulf
    Jul 20, 2014 at 18:15
  • Config, screenshots, a more detailed explanation. We are not mind readers and cannot see your screen!
    – Michael Hampton
    Jul 20, 2014 at 18:27
  • That's why I said standard settings AKA default configuration. Didn't change a thing. Please see pastebin.com/1hDmRp02 for my config file. I played around with the hard disk controller variants though. But no matter which one I chose the Windows setup program told me that there's no suitable driver.
    – Ulf
    Jul 20, 2014 at 20:26
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    BTW: I looked at the walkthrough. This is exactly how I've done it. But in step 7 my Windows won't install the driver.
    – Ulf
    Jul 21, 2014 at 6:22

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