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Upgrading Windows Paravirtual Network Drivers

Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 14:35 Haydn Solomon

KVM developers released the first update of the windows paravirtual network drivers a few days ago so I think a post is warranted in documenting the upgrade procedure.

Windows Paravirtual Network Drivers Release 2 supports 64-bit and SMP Guests

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 11:47 Haydn Solomon

Today KVM maintainers, qumranet, published the second release of the windows paravirtual network drivers adding support for 64-bit as well as SMP guests.

Tip: How to Get Maximum Network Performance using paravirtual drivers and bridged networking

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 - 22:42 Haydn Solomon

In this article I will outline how to configure bridged networking to a tap interface on a Fedora KVM host as there seems to be a lack of good documentation on how to do this.

Tip: Booting Linux 2.6.25 kernel with built-in paravirtual block and network device drivers with fedora 9

Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 20:08 Haydn Solomon

Linux Kernels from 2.6.25 and later come with built in paravirtual network and block device drivers so that they can run as paravirtual guests on KVM host running on release 60 or later.

KVM-64 Release Features PCI Hotplug, Paravirtual MMU and improved PIT accuracy

Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 12:23 Haydn Solomon

KVM-64 was released today featuring pci hotplug, paravirtual mmu and improvied PIT accuracy.

Tip: How to setup Windows guest paravirtual network drivers

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 13:06 Haydn Solomon

The KVM project, maintained by Qumranet, recently released paravirtual network drivers for Windows XP/2k guest machines.

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