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• Virtio Driver Iso

Binary Drivers. Binary drivers are provided by some Linux distributions including WHQL Certified drivers. For example the binary drivers for Ubuntu can be found here. 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. 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.

I was trying to verify that my Win 8.1 VM running in QEMU is getting the full VirtIO benefit for the disk (raw image format) and for the network card. Adobe photoshop cs3 activation code. I read this related post and accessed the QEMU human monitor interface and found that it shows:

This makes it appear to be using VirtIO as does the fact that the Windows Device Manager shows Red Hat VirtIO SCSI Disk Device and Red Hat VirtIO Ethernet Adapter. However, when I run lsmod on my linux host it does not show any virtio modules loaded and when I check my virtio kernel configuration it doesn't show virtio, virtio_net or virtio_blk built in:

I run my VM with a command like:

What am I missing here? Could it be that it's working via pci_virtio_legacy support built in to the kernel? If so, would it be faster to use the other variation and if so do I just make sure to load the virtio, virtio_net and virtio_blk modules before starting the VM?

1 Answer

The virtio backend is in qemu itself, not in the host kernel. qemu is taking packets from the guest virtio frontend network driver and sending them to the bridge device you requested.

In the host kernel you can have vhost drivers to optimise part of the backend function, namely passing the data packets.

See this blog post.

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