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Downloads:

50,002

Downloads of v 0.1.215.200:

34,134

Last Update:

17 Jan 2022

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Red Hat
  • Google
  • Virtuozzo
  • IBM

Tags:

virtio driver kvm

virtIO drivers

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0.1.215.200 | Updated: 17 Jan 2022

Downloads:

50,002

Downloads of v 0.1.215.200:

34,134

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Red Hat
  • Google
  • Virtuozzo
  • IBM

Tags:

virtio driver kvm

virtIO drivers 0.1.215.200

Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by Red Hat, Google, Virtuozzo, IBM. The inclusion of Red Hat, Google, Virtuozzo, IBM trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify Red Hat, Google, Virtuozzo, IBM goods or services and not for commercial purposes.

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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install virtIO drivers, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade virtIO drivers, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall virtIO drivers, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade virtio-drivers -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade virtio-drivers -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install virtio-drivers
  win_chocolatey:
    name: virtio-drivers
    version: '0.1.215.200'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'virtio-drivers' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '0.1.215.200'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller virtio-drivers
{
    Name     = "virtio-drivers"
    Version  = "0.1.215.200"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'virtio-drivers':
  ensure   => '0.1.215.200',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

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Description

Virtio is a virtualization standard for network and disk device drivers where just the guest's device driver "knows" it is running in a virtual environment, and cooperates with the hypervisor. This enables guests to get high performance network and disk operations, and gives most of the performance benefits of paravirtualization.


tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1
$pkgDir = Split-Path -Parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
$isoPath = Join-Path $pkgDir virtio.iso
$downloadArgs = @{
	packageName = $Env:ChocolateyPackageName
	fileFullPath = $isoPath
	url = 'https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.215-2/virtio-win.iso'
	checksumType = 'sha512'
	checksum = '5e36f06de4ac0ff206fb9578c0a25d0d9888f2b7cc81a2539f2f041efd38f00f970a2a9fd0b8be7a81c683671b444d9473ebe9192d034275927b18c8d5a48959'
}
Get-ChocolateyWebFile @downloadArgs
$extractPath = Join-Path $pkgDir virtio
7z x $isoPath -o"$extractPath"
Remove-Item $isoPath

$info = ConvertFrom-Json ([IO.File]::ReadAllText((Join-Path $extractPath 'data/info.json')))
$arch = if ($Env:PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 -eq $null) { $Env:PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE } else { $Env:PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 }
$os = switch ($Env:OS_NAME) {
	'Windows 10' { 'w10' }
	'Windows 8.1' { 'w8.1' }
	'Windows 8' { 'w8' }
	'Windows 7' { 'w7' }
	'Windows XP' { 'xp' }
	'Windows Server 2019' { '2k19' }
	'Windows Server 2016' { '2k16' }
	'Windows Server 2012 R2' { '2k12R2' }
	'Windows Server 2012' { '2k12' }
	'Windows Server 2008 R2' { '2k8R2' }
	'Windows Server 2008' { '2k8' }
	'Windows Server 2003' { '2k3' }
}

# NetKVM is available for all $infRelPath - I extract the Certificate from there
$netkvm = $info.drivers | where { $_.name -eq 'Red Hat VirtIO Ethernet Adapter' -and $_.arch -eq $arch -and $_.windows_version -eq $os }
$cert = (Get-AuthenticodeSignature ([IO.Path]::ChangeExtension((Join-Path $extractPath $netkvm.inf_path), '.cat'))).SignerCertificate;
$certFile = Join-Path $pkgDir 'RedHat.cer'
$exportType = [Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509ContentType]::Cert;
[IO.File]::WriteAllBytes($certFile, $cert.Export($exportType));
certutil.exe -addstore -f TrustedPublisher $certFile

$infListPath = Join-Path $pkgDir inflist.txt
$info.drivers | where { $_.arch -eq $arch -and $_.windows_version -eq $os } | % {
	$infPath = Join-Path $extractPath $_.inf_path
	$output = pnputil.exe /add-driver $infPath /install
	echo $output
	if ($output[4] -match '^[^:]*: *(.*)') {
		Add-Content -Path $infListPath -Value $Matches[1]
	}
	if ($_.name -eq 'VirtIO Balloon Driver') {
		Copy-Item (Join-Path (Split-Path -Parent $infPath) blnsvr.exe) $pkgDir
		Invoke-Expression "$(Join-Path $pkgDir 'blnsvr.exe') -i"
	}
}

$gaPath = Join-Path $extractPath 'guest-agent\qemu-ga-{0}.msi'
$installArgs = @{
	packageName = "QEMU Guest Agent"
	fileType = 'msi'
	silentArgs = '/qn /norestart'
	file = $gaPath -f 'i386'
	file64 = $gaPath -f 'x86_64'
}
Install-ChocolateyInstallPackage @installArgs

Remove-Item -Recurse $extractPath
tools\chocolateyUninstall.ps1
$pkgDir = Split-Path -Parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
$infListPath = Join-Path $pkgDir inflist.txt
Invoke-Expression "$(Join-Path $pkgDir 'blnsvr.exe') -u"
Get-Content $infListPath | % { pnputil /delete-driver $_ /force }
$cert = New-Object Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate2
$cert.Import((Join-Path $pkgDir 'RedHat.cer'))
Get-ChildItem (Join-Path Cert:\LocalMachine\TrustedPublisher $cert.Thumbprint) | Remove-Item

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Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
virtIO drivers 0.1.208.100 2222 Friday, September 17, 2021 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.204.100 858 Saturday, July 31, 2021 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.196.100 573 Thursday, July 8, 2021 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.190.100 1583 Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.189.100 680 Wednesday, August 12, 2020 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.187.100 270 Wednesday, July 29, 2020 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.185.200 519 Wednesday, July 22, 2020 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.185.100 283 Monday, June 22, 2020 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.173.900 708 Monday, March 30, 2020 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.173.800 266 Tuesday, March 17, 2020 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.173.301 447 Sunday, February 9, 2020 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.173.300 289 Monday, January 20, 2020 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.173.201 175 Monday, January 20, 2020 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.173.2 609 Sunday, October 27, 2019 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.172 556 Friday, October 11, 2019 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.171 4995 Saturday, June 22, 2019 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.164 396 Tuesday, February 19, 2019 Approved
virtIO drivers 0.1.160 439 Saturday, October 6, 2018 Approved
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