Is there some problem with latest VirtIO drivers and recent Windows 11 23H2?

[Yuri Benditovich]

I suggest to use
https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/issues instead of
spice-devel mail list unless you think the problem is somehow related to
spice-devel

Thanks
Yuri

On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 11:16 AM Carlos González <piteccelaya at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm coming directly from this mess:
>
> https://forums.opensuse.org/t/qemu-uefi-firemware-not-recognizing-qcow2-virtual-disk-at-all/171009/14
>
> Summarizing:
> QEMU Windows 11 virtual machine; it successfully had updated from 22h2 to
> 23h2 through Windows update, but after this ANY subsequent cumulative
> update breaks the vm into BSOD after rebooting, and in the very best of
> cases all changes are just reverted.
> Attempting to update via directly running the latest Windows 11 ISO yields
> the very same results, except that at the end it shows the BSOD code, which
> hints at "faulty drivers and/or outdated BIOS firmware".
> Finally, trying to install latest Windows 11 from scratch in a newly
> created QEMU vm also results in failure: ISO boots, VirtIO storage driver
> is loaded, installer copies files to virtual disk, reboots... NOTHING to
> boot. Windows' EFI partition never shows, as if never created; thus I only
> get the UEFI shell, and the cycle repeats.
>
> I used latest VirtIO ISO version 240 for all cases.
>
> By chance, any idea of what's happening?
> Thanks.
>
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