{"id":501,"date":"2025-08-09T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/?p=501"},"modified":"2025-08-09T15:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T15:20:26","slug":"how-to-load-vmware-pvscsi-controller-driver-while-installing-windows-10-or-newer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/how-to-load-vmware-pvscsi-controller-driver-while-installing-windows-10-or-newer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to load VMware PVSCSI controller driver while installing Windows 10 or newer."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;<em><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\">No device drivers were found&#8221;<\/mark> when installing Windows 10<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may have experienced this issue while installing Windows 10 or newer inside a VMware VM that has been built with a VMware paravirtual controller. The Windows 10 image doesn&#8217;t have the driver for this controller type, so Windows can&#8217;t see the virtual disk that has been added to the VM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"793\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2-1024x793.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-504\" style=\"width:833px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2-1024x793.png 1024w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2-768x595.png 768w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2-600x465.png 600w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-2.png 1030w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me show you what are the main controller types that VMware offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">LSI Logic SAS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">LSI Logic Parallel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>VMware Paravirtual<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"775\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-505\" style=\"width:835px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-3.png 775w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-3-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-3-768x496.png 768w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-3-600x388.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two ways to resolve this issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Change the SCSI controller types to one of the LSI adapters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Load the PVSCSI driver into the windows installer.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I will show you the second option, which most of them may have seen some issues loading the driver and waster their time on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To begin, you may need a second CD-ROM to mount the VMware tool ISO.  VMware Tool ISOs can be downloaded from the <a href=\"https:\/\/packages.vmware.com\/tools\/esx\/latest\/windows\/\">Public VMware Repository<\/a>. The same ISO can be found inside the ESXi as well however downloading from the repository is easier if you are not familiar with Linux. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Upload the VMware Tool.iso into the datastore where VM is running.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"935\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-511\" style=\"width:847px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-5.png 935w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-5-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-5-768x410.png 768w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-5-600x320.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 935px) 100vw, 935px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Next mount this VMware Tool.ISO into the second CD-ROM. <strong>Make sure to tick the connect button of the CD-ROM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"583\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-6-1024x583.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-512\" style=\"width:848px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-6-1024x583.png 1024w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-6-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-6-768x437.png 768w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-6-600x342.png 600w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-6.png 1424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"583\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-7-1024x583.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-513\" style=\"width:853px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-7-1024x583.png 1024w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-7-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-7-768x437.png 768w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-7-600x341.png 600w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-7.png 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now go back to the VM console and navigate to the CD-ROM as below. <strong>Click on the Load driver<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1022\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-514\" style=\"width:855px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-8.png 1022w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-8-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-8-768x594.png 768w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-8-600x464.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1022px) 100vw, 1022px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1023\" height=\"792\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-515\" style=\"width:857px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-9.png 1023w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-9-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-9-768x595.png 768w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-9-600x465.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1017\" height=\"790\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-517\" style=\"width:861px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11.png 1017w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11-768x597.png 768w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11-600x466.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1017px) 100vw, 1017px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is the folder structure of the VMware Tool.iso. It has three folders for specifying the OS name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1023\" height=\"793\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-519\" style=\"width:862px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-13.png 1023w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-13-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-13-768x595.png 768w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-13-600x465.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This case the operating systems is Windows 10. Let&#8217;s try to expand the Win10 and load the driver. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Select the appropriate folder (Win10) and click OK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"795\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-520\" style=\"width:862px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-14.png 1020w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-14-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-14-768x599.png 768w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-14-600x468.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1022\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-521\" style=\"width:863px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-15.png 1022w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-15-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-15-768x599.png 768w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-15-600x468.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1022px) 100vw, 1022px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may be surprised but the Win10 driver can not be loaded here. <strong>I tried loading <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\">Win8<\/mark> instead<\/strong>, and it loaded and detected the disk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1021\" height=\"787\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-16.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-522\" style=\"width:867px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-16.png 1021w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-16-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-16-768x592.png 768w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-16-600x462.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"796\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-523\" style=\"width:884px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-17.png 1024w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-17-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-17-768x597.png 768w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-17-600x466.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1008\" height=\"790\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-18.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-524\" style=\"width:884px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-18.png 1008w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-18-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-18-768x602.png 768w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-18-600x470.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally disk is here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1022\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-19.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-525\" style=\"width:884px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-19.png 1022w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-19-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-19-768x599.png 768w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-19-600x468.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1022px) 100vw, 1022px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You may proceed with the installation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1021\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-20.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-526\" style=\"width:881px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-20.png 1021w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-20-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-20-768x595.png 768w, https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-20-600x465.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is how the missing PVSCSI driver can be loaded into the Windows installer. Please remember to remove the second CD-ROM if it is not required and delete the VMware Tool.iso from the datastore to reclaim the space. (Not a big file though\ud83d\ude09)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope this would help. Thanks so much for reading. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No device drivers were found&#8221; when installing Windows 10 You may have experienced this issue while installing Windows 10 or newer inside a VMware VM that has been built with a VMware paravirtual controller. The Windows 10 image doesn&#8217;t have the driver for this controller type, so Windows can&#8217;t see the virtual disk that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-server-troubleshooting","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsmedic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}