On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 04:39:06PM +0100, Simone Caronni wrote: > Spinning of from this, I think there is some mess around the Virtio > drivers; I would be glad if someone could explain that to me. > Sorry for the length of this mail but I could not shorten it. > > Let's say I would like to grab the latest virtio drivers and tools for my > Windows guest and the accompanying source code; this is what I found: > > 1) Recent version from Fedora in iso format > - No WHQL, no changelog, no QXL drivers, no Spice Agent available, no source Err, there are sources, see http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/src/ > 3) Official Spice Agent (very old and buggy): > > http://spice-space.org/download/binaries/vdagent-win32_20111124.zip > > 4) Spice Guest Tools setup > - Unofficial Spice Agent, built from the latest sources using the mingw > based package: I'd tend to consider this agent as an official build, though it probably needs to be put in a zip file next to the older build. > ====== > > So far, my best setup is to recreate an iso everytime there is an update to > the following: > > - Latest Fedora drivers for Windows XP, 2003 > - Latest QXL binary from the Spice Guest Tools for Windows XP > - Latest signed RHEL drivers for Windows Vista and up > - Latest signed QXL driver for Windows Vista and up > - Latest Spice Agent binary from the Spice Guest Tools > > I would say this is suboptimal, especially when I try to explain someone > moving from Windows that si trying to virtualize Windows on their newly > converted laptop. > At the best case, they don't have the QXL driver, causing lag in the > desktop, no Spice Agent for cut&paste and usually a lot of problems with > Windows 7. For this use case, all they need to do is to grab the spice-guest-tools installer and run that, the mess you describe is the exact reason why I'm building this installer. > - Have Fedora build the latest Virtio drivers (this is already done) > - Build also the Spice Agent for 32/64 bit (this is done at > spice-space.orgas part of the Spice Guest Tools) > - Build the latest QXL drivers for all the Windows targets supported by the > Virtio drivers (I know the Windows 8 XWDM driver will come eventually later) > - Sign everything with the Redhat key, as it's doing for the drivers at > point 2. Hmm I thought each binary driver release was signed with the Red Hat key (but not WHQL'ed), maybe I missed something... > - Pack everything into an iso. Is that better than having an installer for everything (aka spice-guest-tools)? Christophe
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