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julianwigman
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‎04-22-2018 05:04 AM

Cant upgrade from Server 2008 R2 (x64) to 2012 R2 (x64)

Hi

I am trying to upgrade my VM to 2012 R2 but the installation cant find the LSI Ultra320 storage controller driver.

I note that if I create a new VM with SCSI controller it sets it to "lsisas1068" whereas my older VM is set to "lsilogic".

This is a single disk VM so this is the boot drive!

Does anyone know how I can switch to using "lsisas1068" as the storage controller?

I tried changing in the VMX file but then the guest OS wont boot.

I've tried everything on this and I really need to keep the installed APP's and data post upgrade (otherwise I'd throw aware this VM and start again!).

Any ideas all?

Regards

Julian

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a_p_
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Leadership
‎04-22-2018 06:08 AM

What should work (I assume that you already made a backup):

  • temporarily add a second virtual disk to the current VM. Make sure you select the LSI-SAS Controller, so that Windows loads the required drivers
  • once drivers are loaded, shut down the VM, and remove the second virtual disk again
  • close the VM's tab (or Workstation) to ensure that the configuration gets re-read after editing the .vmx file
  • change the controller in the VM's configuration file

André

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