Hi everyone. I know that "virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd" (formerly available from http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/ but not anymore) was a popular way to load Windows XP virtio support at install time if we are not subscribed to RHN (otherwise see: https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/packages/details/Overview.do?pid=602010 for your paid access to get "virtio-win" package) ; We can do better than that, as "virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd" is not easily found and does not have much to do with current SPICE downloads being offered. * Note a bug that I am experiencing Windows XP setup does not recognize a given drivers floppy disk image on most configurations of Linux kernel newer than 3.5.x series; Finally I am making it work with qemu 1.5.0 and Linux 3.10.x but only if I set the guest to have virtio storage with also qxl video. This bug is mentioned herein because I have verified the below process for creating a drivers floppy disk image, it is working for Windows XP setup 32-bit. If it does not work for you, maybe then you also are experiencing this bug as I have. Requirements are 7zip (newer than 4.40) and mkisofs. The idea is to make a driver floppy disk image to get Windows XP install going, and then also an ISO that auto-runs spice-guest-tools once system install is complete. Cheers, Eric Shattow from Tahoe City CA. # HOWTO construct spice-guest-tools-0.59-win.{vfd,iso} # # Problem(s) solved: # * Windows XP install needs floppy drive to load virtio # * virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd is obsolete # * virtio-win-1.6.3-3.el6.noarch.rpm not freely available # wget http://spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-0.59-src/virtio-win-0.1-59-sources.zip wget http://spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-0.59.exe mkdir -p "sgtprep"/vfd 7z e -ssc- -o"sgtprep"/vfd virtio-win-0.1-59-sources.zip internal-kvm-guest-drivers-windows/viostor/txtsetup.oem touch "sgtprep"/vfd/disk1 7z e -ssc- -o"sgtprep"/vfd/i386/WinXP spice-guest-tools-0.59.exe '$_OUTDIR'/winxp/x86/* 7z e -ssc- -o"sgtprep"/vfd/i386/Win2003 spice-guest-tools-0.59.exe '$_OUTDIR'/win2k3/x86/* 7z e -ssc- -o"sgtprep"/vfd/amd64/Win2003 spice-guest-tools-0.59.exe '$_OUTDIR'/win2k3/amd64/* dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=2880 of=spice-guest-tools-0.59-win.vfd mkfs.vfat -F12 spice-guest-tools-0.59-win.vfd mkdir "sgtprep"/mnt sudo mount spice-guest-tools-0.59-win.vfd "sgtprep"/mnt sudo cp -r "sgtprep"/vfd/* "sgtprep"/mnt sync && sudo umount "sgtprep"/mnt mkdir -p "sgtprep"/iso cp "spice-guest-tools-0.59.exe" "sgtprep"/iso cat > "sgtprep"/iso/autorun.inf << EOF [autorun] open=spice-guest-tools-0.59.exe icon=spice-guest-tools-0.59.exe,0 label=Spice Guest Tools 0.59 Mode=Administrator EOF mkisofs -r -J -o spice-guest-tools-0.59-win.iso "sgtprep"/iso/* _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel