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I recently needed to reproduce a customer issue in my lab environment. My lab is a Windows 10 workstation with the Hyper-V role installed. Part of reproducing the issue involved building out a Windows Server R2 Foundation virtual machine. I figured this would not be a problem as R2 runs fine as a virtual machine. This was not the case though. I ran into a major hurdle with the integration tools. I will describe the process I went through to get a Windows Server R2 Foundation virtual machine running smoothly.
Now before anyone goes out and tries the below procedure for a production system, please understand that running Foundation edition as a virtual machine is not supported by Microsoft. Typically Foundation edition is only sold with an OEM license. That means it comes pre-installed on hardware and must remain on that hardware. I have a MSDN subscription and thus have a valid license.
Additionally, I am not running the server for any type of production workload. I started the process by creating a generation 2 VM virtual machine. Unfortunately I found out this will not work as the VM bugchecked during setup. I deleted that VM and created a generation 1 VM. I was then able to get the Windows loaded. This is when I discovered the major hurdle I mentioned above. The VM responded very slowly to mouse and keyboard input. I also noticed severely degraded performance.
This was to the point of the VM almost being unusable. The VM behaved as if none of the integration services drivers were installed.
I was able to get the vmguest. However when I tried to run the setup I was informed that the latest integration services were already installed. At this point I realized this was not going to be easy, but I enjoy a challenge. I browsed the vmguest. I then went into device manager. I noticed quite a few, a dozen or so, unknown devices. I then tried to manually load the drivers from the extracted cab file.
While the driver was found, it was not signed. Yet another roadblock. It is no longer possible to permanently disable driver signature enforcement. I was able to boot into driver signature enforcement disabled mode. I then manually loaded drivers for all the Unknown devices.
This corrected the input and performance issues, at least for that boot. Booting into normal mode caused all the issues to return. Getting the drivers to load each time Windows booted was the final step in getting the virtual machine to run properly. I looked into the bcdedit command line options and was not able to find an option to boot to driver signing disabled mode.
What I ended up doing was to add a dummy entry to the boot list and set the timeout to 30 seconds with the following commands. Presently, on each boot I press F8 to get the boot options. I then select Disable Driver Signature Enforcement.
Now the VM runs with all guest integration services. If you have been able to find a better way to do this I would like to hear about it in the comments below. I have the same issue. The better solution for me was editing inf files. Like Like. Thank you for your reply. This would definitely be a better solution if longer term use of the virtual machine is required. You are commenting using your WordPress.
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Presently, on each boot I press F8 to get the boot options. I then select Disable Driver Signature Enforcement. Now the VM runs with all guest integration services. If you have been able to find a better way to do this I would like to hear about it in the comments below. I have the same issue.
The better solution for me was editing inf files. Like Like. Thank you for your reply. This would definitely be a better solution if longer term use of the virtual machine is required. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email.
Skip to content I recently needed to reproduce a customer issue in my lab environment. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading The machine attempted to join the domain but failed. The error code was Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here No dice. Is it possible because it's a trial-version this is not allowing it to work? To know if it is there, open the console of a VM and select the action "Insert Integration Services Setup Disk" you never directly browse to the vmguest.
I just checked my fresh and clean R2 server and it is there. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 5.
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