I am playing around with different hypervisors, and I'm on to Proxmox VE. I setup an old server to test it out on, and installed Windows 7 as my first VM, using virtio drivers for everything – networking, disk controller, etc. I followed the recommendations from this page on the Proxmox Wiki, and downloaded the latest ISO using wget from https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/stable-virtio/virtio-win.iso.
I then tried to let Windows automatically search the CD for the drivers, and everything is installed. My issue is that the Network Adapter is showing a Code 10, cannot start, shown below:
This is running on Debian Wheezy (the version the Proxmox ISO had included), with a Windows 7 x86 guest. I have even tried shutting down the VM, and changing the MAC address, but no change. I have also tried disabling the TCP/UDP Checksum Offload options as suggested in this answer to a similar issue. I have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers repeatedly, restarting in between. Settings below:
Best Answer
There seems to be a problem with the current stable-virtio 0.1.96.
latest-virtio 0.1.105 works for me.