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Bug 489376

Summary: Add virtio-win package
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Perry Myers <pmyers>
Component: virtio-winAssignee: Yuval Kashtan <ykashtan>
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Version: 5.4CC: ari.tilli, bazulay, ian, kenni, kmoriwak, maxim, mikeb, mjenner, paulojjs, phillip.brown, riaanvn, syeghiay, volker
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OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: NwCmp: virtio-win
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Description Perry Myers 2009-03-09 18:46:05 UTC 
virtio-win package will contain Windows virtio drivers to be used to improve performance of disk and network devices in Windows guests running on kvm
Comment 10 Phillip S. Brown 2009-10-26 22:34:52 UTC 
Does that mean the reference to install them here is not yet implemented?

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtualization_Guide/chap-Virtualization-KVM_Para_virtualized_Drivers.html
Comment 11 Jay Greguske 2009-12-02 14:25:54 UTC 
This was released when advisory RHEA-2009:1624 went live on 12/1/09. 

https://errata.devel.redhat.com/errata/show/9115