- #PCI SIMPLE COMMUNICATIONS CONTROLLER WINDOWS 8.1 INSTALL#
- #PCI SIMPLE COMMUNICATIONS CONTROLLER WINDOWS 8.1 DRIVERS#
- #PCI SIMPLE COMMUNICATIONS CONTROLLER WINDOWS 8.1 UPDATE#
- #PCI SIMPLE COMMUNICATIONS CONTROLLER WINDOWS 8.1 DRIVER#
The vm has to be off for this to take effect - setting whilst booted and rebooting won't work. Now this is the bit I missed initially, you've to shutdown your guest _before_ going into Options of the guest and enabling the checkbox for "QEMU Guest Agent".
#PCI SIMPLE COMMUNICATIONS CONTROLLER WINDOWS 8.1 DRIVER#
But you're gonna need a further driver off the ISO anyway so I just went with mounting that. You could get the msi to there from downloading within the guest or copying it over via other means - doesn't matter.
#PCI SIMPLE COMMUNICATIONS CONTROLLER WINDOWS 8.1 INSTALL#
Then install the qemu-ga-圆4.msi (64-bit) or qemu-ga-x86.msi (32-bit) from the mounted iso in the guest. Once uploaded go to the hardware within your Windows Guest and mount the virtio-win.iso to the cdrom of that guest. Then in Proxmox you need to upload that to your local storage using the button within "Contents". Then under "Direct downloads" is the link to the full ISO:ĭownload that to your administrative desktop. This in itself is a shade obscure - starting:
#PCI SIMPLE COMMUNICATIONS CONTROLLER WINDOWS 8.1 UPDATE#
To update your PCI simple communications controller Driver automatically, click here to find out more about our driver update tool and run a Free Driver Scan for your PCI communication device.Just to update this, as I don't think the full process is very clear and hopefully the Wiki can be tidied up:įirst you need to install the guest agent. Using a good and reliable Driver Update Tool can often be your best option.
#PCI SIMPLE COMMUNICATIONS CONTROLLER WINDOWS 8.1 DRIVERS#
Manually updating drivers can be time-consuming and there is always a possibility of downloading the wrong drivers that can destabilize your system.