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Installing VirtIO drivers during Windows installation

In the first method, we can load the VirtIO drivers during Windows installation through the following steps:

Add two CD/DVD drives when creating the Windows VM. The first drive is to load the Windows installer and the other one to load the VirtIO ISO image.
Start Windows installation and click on Load driver as shown in the following screenshot:

Go to Browse to select the drive with the VirtIO ISO image, and then navigate to the driver folder. The driver for the VirtIO disk image is usually stored in \\<DriveLetter>\viostor\<windows_version>\amd6.

After selecting the folder, it ...

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