A virtio-win bug fix and enhancement update has been released for Rocky Linux 8.

RLBA-2021:3069 virtio-win bug fix and enhancement update

Name:
RLBA-2021:3069

Synopsis:
virtio-win bug fix and enhancement update

Severity:
UnknownSeverity

Topic:
An update for virtio-win is now available for Rocky Linux 8.

Description:
The virtio-win package provides paravirtualized network drivers for most
Microsoft Windows operating systems. Paravirtualized drivers are
virtualization-aware drivers used by fully virtualized guests running on
Rocky Linux. Fully virtualized guests using the
paravirtualized drivers gain significantly better I/O performance than
fully virtualized guests running without the drivers.

Affected products:

• Rocky Linux 8

Publish date:
2021-08-12

RPMS:

• virtio-win-1.9.17-4.el8_4.noarch.rpm
• virtio-win-1.9.17-4.el8_4.src.rpm