Once the virtio network driver is installed, click on Close. The virtio network driver is being installed. Now, select the virtio driver CDROM and click on OK. Now, click on Browse my computer for driver software. To install the virtio network driver, right click on Ethernet Controller and select Update driver. Now, right click (mouse) on the Windows logo of the start menu and select Device Manager.Īs you can see, the virtio network device is not recognized on Windows. It may take a while to complete the Windows installation on the VM.Īt this point, Windows should be installed on the VM. Windows installer should start installing Windows on the virtio storage device.

Now, you should see the storage device in the Windows installer. The virtio storage driver should be installed. The driver installer should detect the Red Hat VirtIO SCSI controller driver from the CD. Once you’ve selected the correct driver directory, click on OK. Now, from the virtio CD drive, select amd64 > w10 (for Windows 10), amd64 > 2k8 (for Windows Server 2008), amd64 > w7 (for Windows 7), amd64 > w8 (for Windows 8). To install the virtio storage driver, click on Load driver. That’s because the virtio storage driver is not installed on Windows by default. Windows won’t be able to find the storage device of the VM by default. This CDROM should have all the virtio drivers that you need. Now, select the virtio-win-0.1.171.iso file that you’ve just downloaded and click on Choose Volume.Ī new CDROM device should be added. Now, from the Storage section, set Device type to CDROM device. Let’s add a new CDROM device and add the Windows virtio driver ISO image to it. The other one for installing virtio drivers from the virtio Windows driver ISO file that you’ve just downloaded. One with the ISO image of Windows for installing Windows on the VM.

If you want to use the virtio devices on your KVM/QEMU Windows VM, then you need 2 CDROM devices. Now, create a new QEMU/KVM Windows VM (I’m using Virtual Machine Manager) and set the Disk bus to VirtIO from the VM Settings.Īlso, change the network device model of the Windows VM to virtio. The ISO file should be moved to the KVM/QEMU pool. $ sudo mv -v ~ /Downloads /virtio-win.0.1.171.iso /kvm /iso /

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