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The source for the Windows drivers is hosted in a repository on GIT hub. Anonymous users can clone the repository
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
git clone git://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows.git


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




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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:
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 ]
[https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers Latest VirtIO drivers for Windows from Fedora ]


= Code signing drivers for the Windows 64bit platforms =
= Code signing drivers for the Windows 64bit platforms =

Revision as of 16:46, 17 October 2017

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/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows.git

Browse GIT repository online


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 to be 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:

Latest VirtIO drivers for Windows from Fedora

Code signing drivers for the Windows 64bit platforms