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virtio-win drivers for Windows-7

24 Jan 2022

problem

Install Window-7 in KVM with latest virtio-win drivers,
but seems the virtio-win driver doesn’t work: windows-7 installer can’t recognized the right driver.

resolve

google and try previous versions, and finally got the latest version that worked with Window-7:
virtio-win-0.1.189.iso
#Note: here “189.iso works” just means that windows installer could find available driver from 189.iso,
but virtio-win-gt-x64.msi and virtio-win-guest-tools.exe always doesn’t work, and qemu-ga-x64,qemu-ga-x86_64 works fine

virtio-win-0.1.215.iso, virtio-win-0.1.208.iso, virtio-win-0.1.204.iso, virtio-win-0.1.196.iso and virtio-win-0.1.190.iso all can not work with Win7

ref:

virtio-win-drivers-with-win7

see also:

install Windows 11 on KVM

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