Windows PV Drivers

Windows PV Drivers enhance the performance and efficiency of Windows virtual machines. Access documentation and support for seamless integration.

About Windows PV Drivers

Paravirtualization aware (PV) device drivers are an important part of HVM guests running under the Xen Project Hypervisor.

Citrix has provided a set of PV driver for Windows since the inception of XenServer. These drivers have evolved over the years and the full source code has been made available under a BSD license and are available to the community to modify and build upon.

The Windows PV Drivers team at the Xen Project is maintaining and developing these drivers under Xen Project governance.

Downloads

Any other organization is also free to do the same by registering a top-level PV device with the Xen Project community (see Xen PCI device ID registry) and logo-signing their driver builds. Please sign up and follow the win-pv-devel@mailing list for status and development updates.

Read installation driver wiki

License

The drivers are available under a simplified 2-clause BSD license. The code can be found in the following repositories on xenbits.xen.org in the pvdrivers/win folder.

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