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WindowsGuestDrivers/Download Drivers

2013-04-15T19:10:35Z

Ender:

= Windows VirtIO Drivers =

The source for the Windows drivers is hosted in a repository on GIT hub. Anonymous users can clone the repository

git clone git://github.com/YanVugenfirer/kvm-guest-drivers-windows.git

[https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/kvm-guest-drivers-windows Browse GIT repository online ]

== Binary Drivers ==

Binary drivers are provided by some Linux distributions including WHQL Certified drivers.

64-bit versions of Windows Vista and newer (this currently includes Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012) require the drivers to be [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487332 digitally signed] to load.

If your distribution does not provide binary drivers for Windows, you can use the package from the Fedora Project. These drivers are digitally signed, and will work on 64-bit versions of Windows:

[http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/ Latest VirtIO drivers for Windows from Fedora ]

===Notes===
* as of this writing (2011-Nov-08), latest drivers are of version "15", dated "15-Jun-2011", with the CD image being virtio-win-0.1-mm34.iso. In that image, WindowsXP drivers does not seem to work, it is impossible to install them using regular winXP driver interface. But the previous drivers, version "14" as found on this [http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/ Directory], dated "13-Jan-2011", from CD image named "virtio-win-1.1.16.iso", installs on winXP fine. (note: in my experience, the "15" drivers work just fine on XP, except the organization of the ISO is awful - the network driver is found in XP\x86 directory, while the storage, serial and balloon drivers are in WXp\x86 directory; drivers for other Windows versions are similarly scattered)
* 2011-12-21: Debian Lenny Server uses the quite outdated kvm-72. The current network drivers from RedHat/Fedora do not even install (tested on XP/2003) - using the "Windows-2" virtio drivers from [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm/files/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/2/ kvm-guest-drivers-2] is ok. The floppy disk image with the virtio-block driver (for F6 installation) provided by the Fedora Project (virtio-win-1.1.16) works with kvm-72, though.

= Code signing drivers for the Windows 64bit platforms =
* Drivers should be signed for Windows 64bit platforms.
* Here are some links how to self sign and install self signed drivers:
** [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff547649.aspx Installing Test-Signed Driver Packages]
** [http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/tips/IFS_Signing.mspx How to Release-Sign File System Drivers]

WindowsGuestDrivers/Download Drivers

2012-01-07T20:03:29Z

Ender:

= Windows VirtIO Drivers =

The source for the Windows drivers is hosted in a repository on GIT hub. Anonymous users can clone the repository

git clone git://github.com/YanVugenfirer/kvm-guest-drivers-windows.git

[https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/kvm-guest-drivers-windows Browse GIT repository online ]

== Binary Drivers ==

Binary drivers are provided by some Linux distributions including WHQL Certified drivers.

64-bit versions of Windows Vista and newer (this currently includes Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2) require the drivers to be [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487332 digitally signed] to load.

If your distribution does not provide binary drivers for Windows, you can use the package from the Fedora Project. These drivers are digitally signed, and will work on 64-bit versions of Windows:

[http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/ Latest VirtIO drivers for Windows from Fedora ]

===Notes===
* as of this writing (2011-Nov-08), latest drivers are of version "15", dated "15-Jun-2011", with the CD image being virtio-win-0.1-mm34.iso. In that image, WindowsXP drivers does not seem to work, it is impossible to install them using regular winXP driver interface. But the previous drivers, version "14" as found on this [http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/ Directory], dated "13-Jan-2011", from CD image named "virtio-win-1.1.16.iso", installs on winXP fine. (note: in my experience, the "15" drivers work just fine on XP, except the organization of the ISO is awful - the network driver is found in XP\x86 directory, while the storage, serial and balloon drivers are in WXp\x86 directory; drivers for other Windows versions are similarly scattered)
* 2011-12-21: Debian Lenny Server uses the quite outdated kvm-72. The current network drivers from RedHat/Fedora do not even install (tested on XP/2003) - using the "Windows-2" virtio drivers from [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm/files/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/2/ kvm-guest-drivers-2] is ok. The floppy disk image with the virtio-block driver (for F6 installation) provided by the Fedora Project (virtio-win-1.1.16) works with kvm-72, though.

= Code signing drivers for the Windows 64bit platforms =
* Drivers should be signed for Windows 64bit platforms.
* Here are some links how to self sign and install self signed drivers:
** [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff547649.aspx Installing Test-Signed Driver Packages]
** [http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/tips/IFS_Signing.mspx How to Release-Sign File System Drivers]

WindowsGuestDrivers/Download Drivers

2011-09-18T15:24:50Z

Ender: Removed the text saying that drivers must have WHQL signature, since this isn't really true

= Windows VirtIO Drivers =

The source for the Windows drivers is in a git repository on kernel.org

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm-guest-drivers-windows.git

[http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/kvm-guest-drivers-windows.git;a=summary http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/kvm-guest-drivers-windows.git;a=summary ]

== Binary Drivers ==

Binary drivers are provided by some Linux distributions including WHQL Certified drivers.

64-bit versions of Windows Vista and newer (this currently includes Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2) require the drivers to be [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487332 digitally signed] to load.

If your distribution does not provide binary drivers for Windows, you can use the package from the Fedora Project. These drivers are digitally signed, and will work on 64-bit versions of Windows:

[http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/ Latest VirtIO drivers for Windows from Fedora ]

= Code signing drivers for the Windows 64bit platforms =
* Drivers should be signed for Windows 64bit platforms.
* Here are some links how to self sign and install self signed drivers:
** [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff547649.aspx Installing Test-Signed Driver Packages]
** [http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/tips/IFS_Signing.mspx How to Release-Sign File System Drivers]