Windows 10 doesn't detect nvme disk during installation.

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Zerophase
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Windows 10 doesn't detect nvme disk during installation.

Post by Zerophase »

I'm trying to install windows 10 to vdi on an virtual NVMe controller. I made sure to turn on UEFI to enable booting from NVMe, but Windows still cannot find the disk and asks for drivers. I tried looking for drivers on the guest additions iso, but couldn't see anything on the iso. (throught the windows install file browser) Which NVME driver do I need to install for Windows 10 version 1709?
michaln
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Re: Windows 10 doesn't detect nvme disk during installation.

Post by michaln »

None. It worked with previous Windows 10 builds but the latest one doesn't quite seem to follow the NVMe specification.

Anyway, right now the benefit of NVMe in a VirtualBox VM is nil.
chrfranke
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Re: Windows 10 doesn't detect nvme disk during installation.

Post by chrfranke »

Access to virtual NVMe drives from Win10 1703+ guests works for me if either VirtualBox is downgraded to 5.1.30 or the Windows NVMe driver stornvme.sys is downgraded to 1607.

See https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17228 for test results.
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