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Usefull post from Michael about MDT and Hyper-V

GuillaumeD's blog — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:59:24 GMT

Michael Niehaus posted instructions to add Hyper-V Integration Components into WinPE : Using the Hyper-V

re: Using the Hyper-V integration components with MDT 2008 Update 1 Lite Touch

disaacks — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:26:33 GMT

I have tried the steps from all three sites, with the last being Michael's above. I keep having the same issue when trying to deploy a Windows Server 2008 x64 machine on an Hyper-V host.

It follows all my task up to the first reboot from WINPE, then when it tries to load Server 2008 setup I get a boot error.

It complains about the storflt.sys driver stating:

Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file

There was another post on one of the other links with the same issue, but there has not been a response.

Can anyone shed some light?

Thanks,

David

re: Using the Hyper-V integration components with MDT 2008 Update 1 Lite Touch

mniehaus — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:44:06 GMT

I have heard about issues with STORFLT.SYS with Hyper-V RC0, but I have not seen this with Hyper-V RTM.

What is the date and size of the STORFLT.SYS file on your system? Any chance you are deploying an image that contains an older set of integration components?

-Michael

re: Using the Hyper-V integration components with MDT 2008 Update 1 Lite Touch

disaacks — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:53:22 GMT

Michael,

My Hyper-V Host is running Windows Core Server x64. It is a fresh install with RTM of Hyper-V.

The Guest is Windows Server 2008 Standard x64.

The version of storflt.sys is 6.0.6001.18016 and the size is 38.0 KB.

I have also setup MDT Update 1 with the driver group, so I am not really sure why it is injecting the drivers into the Server 2008 image.

re: Using the Hyper-V integration components with MDT 2008 Update 1 Lite Touch

disaacks — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:36:31 GMT

I have been looking at this for way to long!

I figure out my issue with the driver group. I had 'driver group001=' instead of 'drivergroup001='. This fixed my issue with the driver injection.

If I inject the Hyper-V drivers into the Server 2008 image, I cannot build the system. I am not sure who else it applies to, but FYI.

Thanks for this write up Michael.

re: Using the Hyper-V integration components with MDT 2008 Update 1 Lite Touch

Firdous — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:04:38 GMT

Michael - Thanks for a great step by step write up, just what I have been looking for.

Though one issue puzzle me when I initially build a new guest I still need the legacy adapter to do a PXE for OS deployment. Mike's post mentions integrating the IC into WinPE should not require it.

Am I doing something incorrect or is this by design?

Firdous

re: Using the Hyper-V integration components with MDT 2008 Update 1 Lite Touch

mniehaus — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:49:39 GMT

Only the legacy adapter supports PXE, as PXE requires a boot ROM. This is emulated by the legacy adapter, but the sythetic driver doesn't/can't emulate the boot ROM.

So to do PXE, you always need to use a legacy adapter. (The legacy driver is built into just about every OS, so no special work to support that.)

-Michael

re: Using the Hyper-V integration components with MDT 2008 Update 1 Lite Touch

frankpintosr — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:45:44 GMT

I am having the same issue with the STORFLT.SYS and I am running the RTM. I found an article saying there is a catalog file which did needed to get it's driver signed by running. Here is the link: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winservergen/thread/321c461f-610a-4c84-96a8-1340fa276583

Even after folowing the instructions, I still get this error.

I have 2 storflt.sys drivers in my out of box drivers directory:

storflt.sys 6.0.6001.18016 6/11/2008 4:50am 33KB

storflt.sys 6.0.6001.18016_(1) 6/11/2008 5:13am 38KB

Running MDT 2008 SP1 on a Win2k3 Ent SP2 x64 Server (this is a vm running on a Win2k8 Ent SP1 x64 Hyper-V machine).

re: Using the Hyper-V integration components with MDT 2008 Update 1 Lite Touch

rsklemme — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:29:19 GMT

Sorted of had a related issue esp. in regard to Step #5 above

Found out the hard way that Vista SP2 wouldnt work easily with the existing Integration Components i.e. HyperV RTM.

The existing WinPE drivers were OK, however we couldnt post-install the Integration Services CD.

I then upgraded an existing Win2008 HyperV server to SP2 and noticed the Integration Components CD and files within had been upgraded.

I then extracted these and voila it all works now..

Have tried builds on HyperV on original Win2008 SP1 (RTM version) and SP2.

There must be a be a dependency on Vista SP2 with the updated drivers in Win2008 HyperV SP2

Found out the hard way that Vista SP2 wouldnt work easily with the existing Integration Components i.e. HyperV RTM.

The existing WinPE drivers were OK, however we couldnt post-install the Integration Services CD.

I then upgraded an existing Win2008 HyperV server to SP2 and noticed the Integration Components CD and files within had been upgraded.

I then extracted these and voila it all works now..its in the same place c:\windows\system32\vmguest.iso as before

Have tried builds on HyperV on original Win2008 SP1 (RTM version) and SP2 successfully.

There must be a be a dependency on Vista SP2 with the updated drivers in Win2008 HyperV SP2 here.