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Reputation: 15551

Can you install drivers in a VM which will be used when the WIM is captured?

I am using Hyper-v and have configured my VM (installed company specific software etc) and I am now ready to create a WIM from it.

What I noticed after creating the WIM file and deploying it was that the drivers were not available for the hardware I was deploying the WIM on. For example the windows resolution was wrong and when I check device manager, the intel graphics driver was missing.

So, is it possible to install drivers for the hardware I will be deploying to on the VM and then capture the image? That way I do not have to do a windows update to get the drivers (they are already on the VM and in my WIM).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 714

Answers (2)

Scott Chamberlain
Scott Chamberlain

Reputation: 127573

From your target system you can do the powershell command

Export-WindowsDriver -Online -Destination d:\drivers

This will export all drivers from that machine to the d:\drivers folder. Once you have that folder mount your image some place and you can do the command

Add-WindowsDriver –Path "c:\offline" –Driver "c:\someHardware\drivers" –Recurse

Where the image is mounted to c:\offline and the d:\drivers from the source machine was coped to c:\someHardware\drivers

NOTE: if you are using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit to capture the image you can import the drivers in to the "Out-of-Box drivers" so images you build will automatically have the needed drivers added to them.

Upvotes: 1

DasHuhn
DasHuhn

Reputation: 9

There is a way to stage drivers, include them in the Windows driver store, which should make them available to hardware, nonexistent on your VM but present on a different machine you want to apply them WIM to. I have used this prev. and it worked w/o a hitch. No VM was involved but the injected driver survived Sysprep with Generalization and was available afterwards on different hardware.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772036(v=ws.11).aspx

Upvotes: 1

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