Tag Archives: windows driver

Proxmox Windows Drive Missing

Posted on by
Reply

Proxmox Windows Drive Missing  KB ID 0001871

Problem

When attempting to deploy a Windows VM, in this case Server 2022, you do not see the local storage.

     

Solution

I’ve been in this situation a hundred times in the past, (usually on physical servers). The problem is simply Windows does not have the driver for the storage controller. There two ways you can approach the problem,

Option 1: Proxmox Windows Drive Missing

The simplest ‘fix’ is simply to redeploy the VM with a bus device type of IDE.

Option 2 : Proxmox Windows Drive Missing

The second option is to have an iso with the VirtIO driver on it, and Proxmox will present it for you is you use the following option. This will require you to have downloaded the drivers on an ISO file and have that file ready to present to the VM (in addition  to the Windows setup .ISO).

Then at the problem screen select ‘Load Drivers‘.

Browse.

Next > Follow the rest of the install procedure.

NOTE: Before I start getting emails! Yes you can also add the drivers to the Windows install media, this is a straight forward procedure using DISM and you can find instructions here.

Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links

NA

Cisco – Using a Mini USB Console Cable

Posted on by

KB ID 0001073 

Problem

A colleague asked me if I had a USB console cable, because the switch he was working on had a failed RJ45 console port. I thought it was just the same cable that charged my phone (USB A to micro USB). But it isn’t, it’s mini USB.

I thought, that might happen to me at some point, and rather than carry yet another cable I got onto eBay and got a female micro USB to male mini USB converter for about 99p. Then all I needed to do was test it.

Solution

Use Cisco USB Console Cable on Mac OSX

1. Just plug it in and the Mac detects it without the need for drivers, (providing the other end is plugged into a device!). You may see something like the following popup, if you run VMware Fusion;

Note: if you want to find out what device it is being called by macOS, simply issue the following command;

[box]ls -ltr /dev/*usb*[/box]

2. You can then can connect directly to it (using 9600 baud as usual), with the following command (your device name in red will differ);

[box]screen /dev/tty.usbmodem1411 9600[/box]

3. Or if you use an application;

RoyalTSX

Using SecureCRT

4. And we are in.

Use Cisco USB Console Cable on Windows

Things are a little more convoluted on Windows, you need to install a driver (which involves a reboot).

1. Download the Windows Cisco USB Console Cable Driver.

2. When installed and connected to a Cisco device, you should see something like the following in device manager (devmgmt.msc).

3. Now using your preferred terminal emulation software (below I’m using PuTTY) connect using the COM port you identified above.

 

Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links

NA