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I am having a major issue getting the virtio-net driver working on a Windows 7 x64 guest OS.

When installing the virtio-net driver downloaded from the fedora website (virtio-win-0.1-94.iso), the ethernet adapter is recognised as a Redhat virtio adapter but gives an error: code 10, unable to start the device.

The issue happens both on a Windows Host and an Ubuntu Host.
When selecting the Intel 1000 MT driver, everything works as expected.
When selecting NAT instead of Bridged Mode, everything works as expected.

Using the virtio-net driver with a Ubuntu guest works fine.

Due to performance and IP requirements, I need to use the virtio-net driver combined with Bridged Mode.

I am at a loss as to what I can try next. Can anyone point me in the right direction ?

Try one of these instead.
http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/v ... 66470.html

Thanks,

I tried to download the Oracle PV driver but am told I do not have the necessary access.
Any other way to get hold of these drivers ?

Nope. it seems they have changed who can actually get them now.

Try these ( get the iso )
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/vi ... st/images/

I tried this link before but was hopeful as there is a new version available since the 22nd.
However, all to no avail, same result - still error code 10.

May have spoken too soon. After having tried a different host network adapter and rebooting, the original host network adapter and virtio-net appears to have kickstarted.
I will do some more tests in teh next couple of days and report back.

I had the same issue and it seems to be a problem with the 94 drivers.

Grab the 81 drivers here:

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/vi ... in-0.1-81/

Uninstall the devices (removing driver for 94) and install 81. Reboot and you should be good.