RHEA-2020:3847 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update for virtio-win is now available in the Supplementary repository of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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 Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. Fully virtualized guests using the paravirtualized drivers gain significantly better I/O performance than fully virtualized guests running without the drivers.

Enhancement:

• synchronize virtio-win RHEL-7.9 with virtio-win RHEL-8.2.1 (BZ#1848511)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1848511 - [virtio-win] synchronize virtio-win RHEL-7.9 with virtio-win RHEL-8.2.1

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)