Oracle's Secret: Windows Para-virtualized drivers for OCI available!
Mont blanc meisterstuck pen serial number. These versions of Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer web browsers are available in different versions of Windows OS, hence Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 VMs are made available for free download. The virtual machines are available for multiple virtualization platforms, even though not all virtual machines are available in all platforms. I chose to make an ISO, intending to use it to create a VirtualBox virtual machine (VM). VirtualBox Provided you have a license, the Windows 10 ISO file can be installed onto a virtual machine.
UPDATE (May 9th): OCI now officially supports importing Windows VMs in paravirtualization mode! So you no longer have to lie about the operating system you are importing 🙂
When running Windows in a virtual machine you typically have 2 strategies. One is to pretend that windows is running on actual hardware. This means the virtualization layer presents the virtual machine with hardware that exists in the real world, for instance an Intel Pro 1000 network adapter. These devices are emulated to the VM. This emulation is CPU intensive for the hypervisor, as every network and disk I/O transaction needs to be translated from the emulated card to the actual physical network/storage controller.
The other strategy is using para-virtualized hardware. In this case the Virtual Machine is presented with hardware devices, that understand they are operating in a virtualization environment, these hardware components (using their paravirtualized drivers) can talk directly to the actual hardware. This means no expensive CPU translation is needed, giving this virtual machine much more performance.
When you are importing Microsoft Windows virtual machines from on-premise into OCI, you were doing this by using the emulated mode. But now you have the choice to also import your Windows virtual machines using para virtualization. Key is that before you import the virtual machine, you install the newly released para virtualized drivers for Windows into the VM. After that you can import the VM with para-virtualized hardware support!
A strange place, but welcome addition 🙂
So where can you find these Windows para-virtualized drivers for OCI? Well you need to go to the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud and search for 'Oracle Linux' ?!?!?! (NO APRIL FOOLS JOKE)
How to take a screenshot on an apple macbook air. Select the 'DLP: Oracle Linux 7.6' option.
In this zip file you will find a small ISO file that will contain the drivers.
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All you need to do, is to install the Oracle para-virtualized drivers in your Windows VM before you export the VM.
Shutdown your VM and it is now ready to export. You do not yet have to uninstall VMware tools, this can later be done when already running inside OCI.
When you have exported your VMDK file, you are ready to copy this to OCI. It first needs to be copied inside the object storage service, from there you can import it as a custom image. OCI support native importing VMDK files, so you do not need to convert your VMware virtual machine.
If you are trying to upload your VM using the OCI Web UI, you will probably run into an issue. Using the web UI you can only upload files up to 2GB. You have several ways to solve this. You can for instance use cyber duck or my favorite way is to use the OCI CLI tool.
After you have uploaded the VMDK file, you can create a Pre-Authenticated Request for the file. This gives you a unique URL to can now be imported as a custom image.
While the PV drivers are available, the people who made the import function in the UI are clearly not aware of this yet. If you select the windows operating system, it will not give you the option to import as VM with para virtualized hardware, so just select your as OS Linux! and you are good to go. Select windows when importing and use the paravirtualization mode. It takes a few minutes to import. When that is done, you are ready to create a new Compute VM using this image.
All that is left to do, is some cleaning up. You will no longer be needing VMware tools inside this image, so feel free to uninstall it.
More information about the para virtualized drivers here:
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/announcing-oracle-virtio-drivers-113-for-microsoft-windows
This article helps fix an issue where Windows 10 Hyper-V can't start virtual machines after a Windows 10 upgrade.
Original product version: Windows 10 - all editions
Original KB number: 4052082
Symptoms
Consider the following scenario:
- You have a Windows 10-based computer that has the Hyper-V role installed.
- You upgrade the computer to Windows 10, version 1709, Windows 10, version 1803, Windows 10, version 1809, Windows 10, version 1903 or Windows 10, version 1909.
In this scenario, you cannot start virtual machines. Also, you receive the following error message:
Start-VM: 'VM_NAME' failed to start. (Virtual machine IDMachineID)
'VM_NAME' failed to start worker process: %%3228369022 (0xC06D007E). (Virtual machine IDMachineID)
At line:1 char:1
+ Start-VM VM_NAME
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Start-VM], VirtualizationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId: OperationFailed,Microsoft.HyperV.PowerShell.Commands.StartVM
Parts of microsoft excel 2007 and its functions. Additionally, you see the following entry in the System log:
The Hyper-V Host Compute Service service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 11 time(s). Bartender 2 0 5 download free. All nokia flash file.
And you see the following entry in the Application log:
Faulting application name: vmcompute.exe, version: 10.0.16299.15, time stamp: 0x1a906fe6
Faulting module name: vmcompute.exe, version: 10.0.16299.15, time stamp: 0x1a906fe6
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000000474b
Faulting process id: 0x3d78
Faulting application start time: 0x01d34d80559647e6
Faulting application path: C:WINDOWSsystem32vmcompute.exe
Faulting module path: C:WINDOWSsystem32vmcompute.exe
Report Id: ReportID
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0
Problem signature:
P1: vmcompute.exe
P2: 10.0.16299.15
P3: 1a906fe6
P4: vmcompute.exe
P5: 10.0.16299.15
P6: 1a906fe6
P7: c0000005
P8: 000000000000474b
P9:
P10:
Attached files:
?C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsWERTempWER98A7.tmp.mdmp
?C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsWERTempWER9974.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
?C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsWERTempWER9981.tmp.csv
?C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsWERTempWER99C1.tmp.txt
?C:WindowsTempWER99C3.tmp.appcompat.txt
C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsWERReportQueueAppCrash_vmcompute. exe_101d36662442e0c1debf6dea58c1dd187cc5_51a43a19_cab_332099dfmemory.hdmp
These files may be available here:
C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsWERReportQueueAppCrash_vmcompute. exe_101d36662442e0c1debf6dea58c1dd187cc5_51a43a19_cab_332099df
Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id:ReportID
Report Status: 4
Hashed bucket:
Cause
This issue occurs because Windows 10 enforces a policy that configures Vmcompute.exe not to allow any non-Microsoft DLL files to be loaded.
Resolution
Vmcompute.exe process. One possible cause of this issue is your antivirus software.
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To do this, you may use some tools such as process explorer. Follow these steps: Tv server windows.
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Download Process Explorer.
Extract the tool, and run ProcessExp64.exe, which is for 64-bit operating system.
Under View menu, select Show Lower Pane, click Lower Pane View, and then select DLLs.
Select the Vmcompute.exe process, and check for non-Microsoft DLLs in the lower pane. It is fine for some entries to be blank.
