Questions on Virtio Win guest tools

[Pcom]

Hello,

Some days ago I noticed I've installed all my windows VM (srv 2016 and 2019) on proxmox using Virtio Win guest tools v 0.1.240-1 but there is a newer version available: 0.1.262-2

Some question:
1- The changelog says absolutely nothing ( https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/CHANGELOG ). Why? What's different from one version to another?
2- Is it worth it to update to latest version all the Win VM or it's not necessary? Any performance or security improvement? Do you keep your Win VM updated?
3- Is it normal that when I try to update one of my VM the network card loose gateway and dns settings but keeps Ip address and subnet? I have to manually fix those settings using proxmox console otherwise VM is offline


Thanks

 

[Pcom]

Up?

 

[dalezorz]

Following

 

[fireon]

I already have the current version 0.1.266 running here. At least I couldn't find anything wrong. Couldn't find any other changlog either...
As far as we can see, Redhat has not provided a changelog for this version.

 

[Fantu]

0.1.240 and 0.1.262 have important issue with disk drivers, 0.1.266 solved at least for the virtioscsi one: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/r...device-system-unresponsive.139160/post-725794
0.1.266 have issue with installer, for example in the installations I did it loses some network settings, I recommend you write them down before the update and check, put them back afterward