----- On Mar 4, 2020, at 7:50 PM, Bernd Lentes bernd.lentes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > i wanted to benchmark a windows guest, compare standard driver and virtio > driver. > I installed the domain first with an IDE disk. > I followed > https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Paravirtualized_Block_Drivers_for_Windows to > install the virtIO driver. > In the device manager my VirtIO disk is recognized as a VirtIO SCSI disk from > RedHat which seems ok for me. > But the driver is, following the device manager, a driver from Microsft from > 21/06/2006, version 10.0.18362.1. > That's strange in my eyes. This driver is outdated and not from RedHat or > Fedora, what i expected. > Also updating the driver and pointing to the CD, even the respective folder, > didn't work. > It says the driver is the most recent. > I used the virtIO-ISO 0.1.173, Windows 10 64bit Edition 1903. > Hi, i found it out by myself. Important is the driver for the SCSI-Controller, not for the disk itself. The one for the controller is from Red Hat and its date is 12/08/2019. See here: https://forum.qnapclub.de/thread/48403-virtio-treiber-welchen-zeitstempel-hat-der-treiber/ (unfortunately in german) and here: https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/9ci0y3/correct_virtio_disk_driver/ Bernd Helmholtz Zentrum München Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1 85764 Neuherberg www.helmholtz-muenchen.de Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende: MinDir.in Prof. Dr. Veronika von Messling Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Matthias Tschoep, Kerstin Guenther Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 6466 USt-IdNr: DE 129521671
