virtio-win-1.0.0-11.45801.el5.noarch.rpm (9.2 MB)

An enhanced virtio-win package is now available.
Para-virtualized drivers are virtualization-aware drivers used by fully
virtualized guests running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fully-virtualized guests
using the para-virtualized drivers gain significantly better I/O performance
than fully-virtualized guests running without the drivers.

This enhanced package provides para-virtualized network drivers for the
following guest operating systems:

32-bit Windows XP
32-bit Windows Server 2003
32-bit Windows Server 2003
64-bit Windows Server 2008
32-bit Windows Server 2008
64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2
32-bit Windows 7
32-bit Windows 7

This enhanced package also provides para-virtualized disk (block) drivers for
the following guest operating systems:

32-bit Windows XP
32-bit Windows Server 2003
32-bit Windows Server 2003
64-bit Windows Server 2008
32-bit Windows Server 2008
64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2
32-bit Windows 7
32-bit Windows 7

• Performance improvement by changing the behaviour of the interrupt and DPC
  handling. (BZ#532298)

• Added support for paravirtual virtio based guest block driver for Windows XP.
  (BZ#532299)

• Added support for full duplex transfer in paravirtual virtio based guest block
  driver. (BZ#532303)

• Extra text that appeared in the license file was removed. (BZ#544005

All users running fully-virtualized instances of Windows on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux-based KVM hosts should upgrade to this package.

virtio-win-1.0.0-11.45801.el5.noarch.rpm MD5: 71654ae36ff6931d0159b5bd554d48be
SHA-256: 96182cd98a1a6a2028fbc24138516a0985c4167cdc8e2c89f20d2a6a726e44a6

http://rhn.redhat.com/errat…: virtio-win enhancement update

MD5

71654ae36ff6931d0159b5bd554d48be

SHA1

1a53d389adb0b635814b9bff6a69953c1c2095f7

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