This repository contains a packaged version of the VirtIO driver set in a form
of an extension for RedPill-powered systems. To learn more about RedPill extensions see redpill-load
.
This extension adds support for fast para-virtualized devices in hypervisors supporting VirtIO. The following features are supported:
Unsupported features (as of now):
The following hypervisors are known to support VirtIO:
This module comes preinstalled/bundled with redpill-load
. If you're a developer, and you're creating a custom fork you
should use index URL of https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RedPill-TTG/redpill-virtio/master/rpext-index.json
The extension automatically determines if the system is suitable to load VirtIO drivers. No manual actions are necessary
from the user. The easiest way to check if it's working properly is the use a virtio
ethernet card.
To ensure minimal diffs and stable archives the following method should be used to create tgz packages present in this repository:
# Run in a directory containing directories with virtio drivers inside them like so:
# . => run here
# ├── check-virtio.sh
# ├── virtio-3.10.105
# │ ├── virtio_balloon.ko
# │ ├── virtio_blk.ko
# │ ├── virtio_console.ko
# │ ├── virtio.ko
# │ ├── virtio_mmio.ko
# │ ├── virtio_net.ko
# │ ├── virtio_pci.ko
# │ ├── virtio_ring.ko
# │ └── virtio_scsi.ko
# ........
for dir in $(ls -A -1 -d */ | sed 's^/^^'); do
tar
--mtime="1970/01/01 00:00:00"
--owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner
--pax-option=exthdr.name=%d/PaxHeaders/%f,delete=atime,delete=ctime
-cf - "${dir}" | gzip -n > "${dir}.tgz"
done