Virtio-disk with driver from Microsoft from 2006 ?

[Lentes, Bernd]

----- On Mar 4, 2020, at 7:50 PM, Bernd Lentes bernd.lentes at helmholtz-muenchen.de wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i wanted to benchmark a windows guest, compare standard driver and virtio
> driver.
> I installed the domain first with an IDE disk.
> I followed
> https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Paravirtualized_Block_Drivers_for_Windows to
> install the virtIO driver.
> In the device manager my VirtIO disk is recognized as a VirtIO SCSI disk from
> RedHat which seems ok for me.
> But the driver is, following the device manager, a driver from Microsft from
> 21/06/2006, version 10.0.18362.1.
> That's strange in my eyes. This driver is outdated and not from RedHat or
> Fedora, what i expected.
> Also updating the driver and pointing to the CD, even the respective folder,
> didn't work.
> It says the driver is the most recent.
> I used the virtIO-ISO 0.1.173, Windows 10 64bit Edition 1903.
> 

Hi,

i found it out by myself. Important is the driver for the SCSI-Controller, not for the disk itself.
The one for the controller is from Red Hat and its date is 12/08/2019.

See here: https://forum.qnapclub.de/thread/48403-virtio-treiber-welchen-zeitstempel-hat-der-treiber/ (unfortunately in german)
and here: https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/9ci0y3/correct_virtio_disk_driver/

Bernd
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