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-device vhost-vsock-pci has no driver in Windows 11 guest #1476

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Without -device vhost-vsock-pci
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With -device vhost-vsock-pci

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To Reproduce
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Install Windows 11
Install guest tools / drivers from https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.285-1/virtio-win.iso

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Guest Agent to work through vsock, I think.
Note that all other drivers I'm using are working - virtio-net etc.

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See above

Host:

  • Disto: Debian 13
  • Kernel version: 6.12.57+deb13-amd64
  • QEMU version: 10.0.6 (Debian 1:10.0.6+ds-0+deb13u2)
  • QEMU command line
qemu-system-x86_64 -m 8192M -M q35 -smp 12 -accel kvm -cpu host \
-device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi \
-device virtio-blk-pci,drive=drive0,id=virtblk0 -drive file=windows.qcow2,format=qcow2,discard=unmap,if=none,id=drive0 \
-drive if=pflash,file=RELEASEX64_OVMF_CODE.fd,format=raw \
-device uefi-vars-x64,jsonfile=windows-vars.json \
-netdev tap,helper=/usr/lib/qemu/qemu-bridge-helper,id=net0 \
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,id=nic1,mac=52:54:00:00:81:25 \
-display vnc=0.0.0.0:0 \
-device vmgenid,guid=auto \
-device virtio-balloon \
-monitor telnet:127.0.0.1:1236,server,nowait \
-device vhost-vsock-pci,guest-cid=3
  • libvirt version
  • libvirt XML file

VM:

  • Windows version: 11/ 10.0.26100.1742
  • Which driver has a problem: virtio-pci I guess?
  • Driver version or commit hash that was used to build the driver:

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