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VirtIO Drivers: Why Storage and Network Accelerators Matter
Understanding Red Hat VirtIO drivers and why LinWin pre-integrates viostor and netkvm.
### What is VirtIO?
VirtIO is the virtualization standard for high-performance I/O in KVM hypervisors. Unlike emulated IDE drives or Intel e1000 network cards, VirtIO delivers near bare-metal disk throughput and 10Gbps+ network performance.
### Included Drivers
Every official LinWin Windows image includes pre-installed:
- **Viostor**: Red Hat VirtIO SCSI/Block storage controller.
- **NetKVM**: Red Hat VirtIO Gigabit Network Adapter.
- **Balloon**: KVM memory management ballooning agent.
- **QEMU Guest Agent**: Enables host-level memory and disk reporting.
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