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The Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows improve performance for network and block (disk) devices on Microsoft Windows™ guests running in a virtual environment on Oracle VM.
The Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows resolve common issues with Microsoft Windows guests, such as the following:
Shutting down the guest does not shut down gracefully. Instead, it is the equivalent of turning the power off. In this case, if you are using the virtual machine console, the console would immediately turn to black instead of showing the shut down process.
Restarting the virtual machine may display messages that the virtual machine was not properly shut down.
Restarting the virtual machine requires disk checks and verification.
Oracle Support recommends that you install the latest release of Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows.
To run Microsoft Windows guests as PVHVM-supported (paravirtual hardware virtual machine) operating systems, you must install the Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows. For a full list of Microsoft Windows guest operating systems that are PVHVM-supported, see Section 2.2, “Supported Guest Operating Systems”.
The Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows contain the Oracle VM Guest Additions. For detailed information about the implementation and functionality of the guest additions in Microsoft Windows guests, refer to the Windows-specific information in the chapter entitled Installing and Using the Oracle VM Guest Additions in the Oracle VM Administration Guide for Release 3.4.