Latest Windows Virtio Drivers
The latest build of the kvm virtio drivers are now available at fedoraproject.org. The drivers include virtio drivers for ballooning memory, virtioserial, network and viostor ( block drivers ). These drivers are signed but not WHQL and there are no gui installers for them. If you’ve been running virtio network drivers already, you can upgrade to this latest build by using the procedure outlined in an earlier post: upgrading virtio network drivers . After upgrading your network drivers, your driver properties should now look like the following showing driver version 5.1.209.605.
These drivers are publised in the form of a virtual floppy and virtual cdrom image and can be found at the following link
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/
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Is there a changelog anywhere
Friday, August 27, 2010 - 15:30 Anonymous (not verified)Is there a changelog anywhere for these?
Re: changelog
Friday, August 27, 2010 - 17:58 Haydn SolomonChangelog will be in git repositories. I'll update post with changelog..
In using guest OS Windows XP.
Saturday, August 28, 2010 - 08:16 Anonymous (not verified)In using guest OS Windows XP. It was CPU100%, improved in this version.
Thank you.
I'm looking for virtioserial
Monday, August 30, 2010 - 01:10 Anonymous (not verified)I'm looking for virtioserial windows driver for a long time,
thanks a lot.
what does virtio serial provide?
Monday, August 30, 2010 - 05:58 mangoo (not verified)What does virtio serial provide?
I think there was serial port support in Qemu even without virtio serial, or?
Re: what does virtio serial provide
Monday, August 30, 2010 - 06:07 Haydn SolomonVirtio serial doesn't do anything by itself, it's only a transport protocol. Think of it as infrastructure to build virtual serial devices for communication between guest and host so there are many possible applications. See the following link for more details and gives a good explanation of virtio serial.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtioSerial
Please update the download links on the front pages of linux-kvm
Friday, October 8, 2010 - 20:02 Anonymous (not verified)The download links on the front page of linux-kvm.com still point to older versions.
The information on linux-kvm.org is even more outdated and with no message telling people to go to the .com site.
What are these .cat files
Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 20:03 tekditt (not verified)What are these .cat files for? With them, the drivers should be signed, but still Windows complains that they aren't.
The main problem is that 64-bit Windowses don't run on non-signed drivers anymore. The only way to get it working is to switch the installed Windows into test mode...
Re: download links on front page
Monday, October 18, 2010 - 21:58 Haydn SolomonI've updated links on front page with the most recent images of windows paravirtual guest drivers.
Redhat virtio
Monday, November 1, 2010 - 14:40 Anonymous (not verified)Redhat Virtio signed drivers
http://rghost.net/853821
Anybody can upload virtio-win-1.0.0-11.45801.el5.noarch.rpm ??
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0494.html
Last Redhat virtio signed drivers
Friday, November 12, 2010 - 17:01 Anonymous (not verified)Download virtio-win-1.0.0-11.45801.el5.noarch.rpm (http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0494.html)
http://rghost.net/3235334 :)
Last Redhat 6 virtio signed drivers 1.1.16
Monday, November 29, 2010 - 11:04 Anonymous (not verified)Last Redhat 6 virtio driver: virtio-win-1.1.16-0.el6.noarch.rpm
http://rghost.net/3412907
These drivers also work
Monday, November 29, 2010 - 15:26 Anonymous (not verified)These drivers also work wonderfully with VBox 3.1 and 3.2
Is it legal to redistribute
Friday, January 14, 2011 - 15:02 Anonymous (not verified)Is it legal to redistribute this package?
New virtio drivers (version 1.1.16)
Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 14:59 Sergey VlasovDrivers at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/ have been updated to version 1.1.16. Previous version (1.11.1-0) has been removed, therefore links at the front page are now broken.
Image files are dated 13-Jan-2011, but driver files inside seems to be from 20-Sep-2010, and the included changelog in status.txt also mentions 20 September 2010; this probably corresponds to the "release_20.09.2010" tag at http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/kvm-guest-drivers-windows.git;a=summary (but commits there have some later timestamps).
re: New virtio drivers (version 1.1.16)
Monday, January 17, 2011 - 07:54 Haydn SolomonThanks Sergey
I've updated the links on the front page.
Totally illegaly.
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 09:34 Anonymous (not verified)Totally illegaly.
http://rghost.net/853821: virtio-win-1.0.0-7.39539.el5.noarch.rpm
http://rghost.net/3235334: virtio-win-1.0.0-11.45801.el5.noarch.rpm
http://rghost.net/3412907
http://rghost.net/5080210
Monday, April 4, 2011 - 20:49 Anonymous (not verified)http://rghost.net/5080210
Last Redhat virtio signed drivers
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 09:59 Anonymous (not verified)virtio-win-1.1.16-1.el6.noarch.rpm
http://rghost.net/5080210
Can you please guide me in
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 08:04 Anonymous (not verified)Can you please guide me in installing it form this iso
Hi! I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 as
Sunday, May 22, 2011 - 03:09 Tom (not verified)Hi! I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 as the host os, on AMD 64 X2 6000+ with 6 GB of RAM.
Libvirt+KVM.
Latest Virtio drivers from RedHat (dated 01.2010, digitally signed for all windows systems)
Network virtio devices works perfectly.
Windows drivers for virtio block device installs, but can't initialize with "Code 10. The device can not start".
Tried systems: Windows 2008 R2 x64, Windows 2003 R2 x64, Windows XP x32. Errors are the same.
Fedora or Ubuntu installed on virtio block device works perfectly.
Where should I look?
Thanks
Tommy
Windows drivers for virtio block device installs, but can't init
Saturday, May 28, 2011 - 12:36 Anonymous (not verified)See: http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/set-up-rh-virtio-scsi-driver...
Virtio install Windows 7 KVM (x64/x86) on Fedora 14
Monday, May 30, 2011 - 14:34 Boris Derzhavets (not verified)View :-
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/147126/index.html
I also believe that python-virtinst is at least 0.500.5 (6) on F14 in meantime.
Libvirt Preview
Monday, May 30, 2011 - 14:38 Boris Derzhavets (not verified)I keep in mind "Libvirt Preview" env ( e.g. like on F15 )
Last Redhat virtio signed drivers - virtio-win-1.2.0-1
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 13:15 Anonymous (not verified)virtio-win-1.2.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm
http://rghost.net/9814291
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0782.html: virtio-win bug fix and enhancement update
I checked out the newest
Friday, June 10, 2011 - 07:43 Artem (not verified)I checked out the newest virtio-win drivers
virtio-win-1.2.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm
but only discovered that the netkvm drivers are the same version as in previous 1.1.6 release: 6.0.209.605
Is this a packaging bug, I wonder? Are the netkvm drivers really updated? how to tell?
Re: I checked out the newest
Sunday, June 12, 2011 - 15:23 Anonymous (not verified)Check https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0782.html
This release update virtio-serial, virtio-ballon and virtio-block only. No virtio-ethernet update!
Re: I checked out the newest
Sunday, June 12, 2011 - 15:39 Anonymous (not verified)Download http://rghost.net/9814291 and compare MD5 (MD5: 5f165f7d2280ca8efffe9dede23029a7 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0782.html). This is a official package of RedHat!
There are Drivers provided by
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 11:27 Anonymous (not verified)There are Drivers provided by Fedora at:
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/15/images/bin/virtio-win...
Version: 60.61.101.58000
Date: 04.04.2011
Redhat signed drivers WHQL
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 20:19 Anonymous (not verified)Fedora drivers are signed but not WHQL. Redhat are signed and WHQL. Download
redhat kvm virtio drivers here: http://rghost.net/9814291
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0782.htm
Last Redhat virtio signed drivers - virtio-win-1.3.3
Saturday, October 15, 2011 - 14:33 Anonymous (not verified)virtio-win-1.3.3-0.el6.noarch.rpm
http://rghost.net/25727061
Last Redhat virtio signed drivers - virtio-win-1.3.3
Friday, December 9, 2011 - 17:23 Anonymous (not verified)virtio-win-1.4.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm
http://rghost.net/34007211
Certificate expires 28. March 2013
Friday, January 27, 2012 - 04:07 Retrofreak (not verified)The Red Hat Certificate for the virtio storage controller driver ("VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2009-2 CA", "Valid from 28.03.2010 until 28.03.2013") will expire next year. What will happen to my virtualized 2008R2 Servers then? Will they stop working or refuse to boot?! Or is the certificate just one time at installation checked?!
I have to be sure at this point. Can anybody help?
Thank you!
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