How are the virtio drivers supported in Red Hat products?

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Openstack Platform (RHEL-OSP)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Windows Guest OS

Issue

The virtio-win drivers are in the Supplementary Channel on Customer Portal Download page, but are they supported?

Resolution

For all versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 6 and 5, the virtio-win driver is supported in the Supplementary Channel.
The virtio-win drivers are also supported and delivered on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization or Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform through their respective channels.

A broader clarification around the supportability around contents on Supplementary Channel can be found at:
https://access.redhat.com/site/support/offerings/production/scope_moredetail/

Root Cause

Virtio-win drivers are shipped in Supplementary channel of Customer Portal Download page which means that users subscribed to this channel can install them in all KVM virtual guests. The drivers are destined for RHEV, RHEL-OSP, all releases of RHEL 8, RHEL 6 platforms, and all releases of RHEL 5 platforms, and hence not supported outside of these.

Certified guest operating systems for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM can be found at:
Certified guest operating systems for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM/

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