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. 31 rows Jan 31, 2019 This repository contains KVM/QEMU Windows guest drivers, for both. The host drivers will be included in the qemu package. For Fedora 17, management tools based on libvirt will not support this yet. Install the qemu-kvm package. Download an install image for this release of Fedora (network or DVD). Prepare a large file to be used as the disk for a Fedora virtual machine.
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In 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Virtualization Host Configuration and Guest Installation Guide' in chapter 10.1 'Installing the KVM Windows para-virtualized drivers' it says:
The virtio-win package contains the para-virtualized block and network drivers for all supported Windows guest virtual machines. The virtio-win package can be found here in RHN
Alas, RHN is a premium feature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Are virtio drivers available on CentOS?
Yes, you can download the drivers from the upstream KVM project.
If you want an installable virtio-win RPM package, similar to that provided by RHEL, then you can use the virtio-win yum repository provided by the Fedora Project.
As @Michael Hampton pointed out, you can download the drivers from the offsite. The RPM is just a wrapper around a set of .vfd and .iso files, containing the drivers, it doesn't do anything on the host besides copying those files so they are available. In short, you don't really need the RPM.