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Clarify that the smbus ISO rebuild is needed for Windows Server 2025 and newer only
Older Windows releases accept the driver's signature and work with the unmodified upstream ISO; make that explicit so operators do not rebuild the ISO unnecessarily.
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virtio-win 0.1.285, rejects the optional ``smbus`` driver's certificate during the
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first-boot driver installation. virt-v2v retries the failed installation on every
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boot, which leaves the imported guest in a reboot loop. The driver is a non-essential
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SMBus stub; the essential storage and network drivers install fine. Until this is
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SMBus stub; the essential storage and network drivers install fine.
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This affects **Windows Server 2025 and newer only** - older Windows releases
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(Windows Server 2016/2019/2022, Windows 10/11) accept the driver's signature and work
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fine with the unmodified upstream ISO, so no action is needed for them. Until this is
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resolved in the virtio-win project, rebuild the ISO on the conversion host without the
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``smbus`` files before converting Windows Server 2025 guests (virt-v2v reads the
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drivers from ``/usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win.iso``, so the ISO itself has to be

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