Installing VirtIO Drivers on ProxMox VMs

The following steps should work the same on any ProxMox Windows installation, including: - Windows 2000 - Windows 2003 - Windows XP - Windows 7 - Windows 10

  1. Mount the virtio-drivers.iso file as a CD Drive

  2. Open Up Device Manager by going to “My Computer” > right click on any white space and select “Properties” > Go to the Hardware Tab > click on “Device Manager” ba0d3114a6f3f21b2add7188e01f85f7.png

Right click on the device that has not been properly installed and select “install driver” or “re-install driver” 231e1b19d1939edfba02ac07d53e1089.png

Select “Search for suitable driver for my device” and scan the CD-ROM drives for the drivers. 4eccd309c1878b1a9ea17809e02e4953.png

Windows will either find the virtio driver and install it, or it will fail to find a comptaible driver which usually means the VM Windows Version is too old for that virtio driver and it can be uninstalled so that users won’t get nagged about installing a driver each time the VM reboots. 0cebd6f67431fb8bcbab3abf9c2dbf09.png

Error: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing (Code 39) 37c928ff984a78d16e27b395ca8c1414.png

Last updated on July 17, 2024. For any questions/feedback, email me at blog@zinchuk.xyz.