How to add virtio drivers to initramfs

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Issue

We want to update the initramfs to include the virtio drivers so they will be available at startup. This can be helpful if the VM is planned to be migrated to a KVM-based hypervisor.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, 8

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