Add-WindowsDriver pvpanic-pci fails with: the request is not supported

[rgl]

Describe the bug

In a Windows 2022 machine, while building a Windows PE image mounted at $env:WINDOWS_PE_MOUNT_PATH, calling Add-WindowsDriver pvpanic-pci fails with the request is not supported error.

This also happens for the smbus.inf driver.

To Reproduce

Follow the procedure to mount the Windows PE (e.g. like done at https://github.com/rgl/windows-pe-vagrant/blob/master/provision-winpe.ps1), then try the following to include the pvpanic-pci driver into the mounted Windows PE image:

cd virtio-win-0.1.248\pvpanic\2k22\amd64
$driverPath = 'pvpanic-pci.inf'
Add-WindowsDriver -Path $env:WINDOWS_PE_MOUNT_PATH -Driver $driverPath`

Expected behavior

Expected the driver to be successfully added to the Windows PE image.

Host:

• Disto: Windows 2022
• Kernel version: n/a
• QEMU version: 6.2.0 (Debian 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.21) (from Ubuntu 22.04)
• QEMU command line: n/a
• libvirt version: n/a
• libvirt XML file: n/a

VM:

• Windows version: Windows 2022 Server.
• Which driver has a problem: pvpanic-pci
• Driver version or commit hash that was used to build the driver: n/a

[YanVugenfirer]

Please supply QEMU command line.

Also keep in mind that officially we are not supporting Windows PE. So it might take time for us to take a look at the issue. Looks like Windows PE failing ACPI based devices.

[rgl]

Why is the qemu cmdline relevant? I mean, Add-Windows Driver is supposed to just add the driver to the windows driver store? Does it actually load the driver?

[YanVugenfirer]

So is this SW first scenario (adding driver without having HW device)?

[rgl]

Yes, the VM (which calls Add-WindowsDriver) that is creating the windows pe iso does not have all the virtio HW devices added to qemu.

The idea is to add all of the virtio drivers to the windows pe iso (and not to the VM that is creating the iso), that way, when windows pe runs, it has all the possible virtio drivers baked in.