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The virtio-win docs are out of date, and soon to be even more so with coming upstream changes to the yum repo. Upstream devs would like to move the docs closer to the upstream project infrastructure. Delete most of the content and point at the upstream packaging README.md https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/quick-docs/issue/327 Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
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:context: creating-windows-virtual-machines-using-virtio-drivers
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[id='creating-windows-virtual-machines-using-virtio-drivers']
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= Creating Windows virtual machines using virtIO drivers
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Fedora infrastructure hosts virtIO drivers and additional software agents for Windows virtual machines running on kernel-based virtual machines (KVM). https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio[virtIO] is a virtualization standard for network and disk device drivers.
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Fedora cannot ship Windows virtIO drivers because they cannot be built automatically as part of Fedora’s build system: the only way to build Windows virtIO drivers is on a machine running Windows. In addition, shipping pre-compiled sources is generally against Fedora policies. Microsoft does not provide virtIO drivers, you must download them yourself in order to make virtIO drivers available for Windows VMs running on Fedora hosts.
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For details on downloading the drivers, please see: https://github.com/virtio-win/virtio-win-pkg-scripts/blob/master/README.md
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