----- Original Message ----- > From: "Justin M. Forbes" <jmforbes@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: virt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Onkar N Mahajan" <kernzap@xxxxxxxxx>, qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx, kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2011 9:35:44 AM > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [fedora-virt] balloon drivers missing in virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd > > On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 02:33 -0400, Andrew Cathrow wrote: > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Onkar N Mahajan" <kernzap@xxxxxxxxx> > > > To: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > > > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:03:26 AM > > > Subject: balloon drivers missing in virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd > > > > > > virtio_balloon drivers are missing in the virtio-win floppy disk > > > image > > > found at > > > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/ > > > whereas they are present in the ISO image , any specific reason > > > for > > > this ? Shouldn't they be ideally present ? > > > The vfd is not supposed to contain the full set of drivers, it is > meant > to be the bare minimum drivers required to install (and fit in > 1.44mb). > The vfd only contains network and block drivers so that you can > install > the system and grab the full set of drivers from the ISO or another > location. Later versions of Windows can install using the ISO for > drivers and do not need the vfd at all. Makes sense, thanks Aic > > Justin > > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
