On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 01:42:40PM -0500, Carlos González wrote: > First thanks all for helping in my previous thread. > Since last answers were posted under a different thread title, I realized I > did make a mistake in trying to mix different topics in a single thread. > Sorry. > > Back to topic, I think I'm still globally confused regarding where to get > all needed Windows VirtIO drivers, and even which pack to use (stable or > latest). > > I think I should mention beforehand that I have used both libvirt (on > OpenSUSE) and Proxmox VE for virtual machines. The Proxmox wiki also has a > good amount of valuable information. > > At first, I had seen there were 2 possible sources: Windows VirtIO ISO from > the fedoraproject website, and the spice-guest-tools installer from the > Spice website. I observed both ship the very same stuff, just different > versions. So asked in another forum about this and was told the Fedora ISO > usually shipped more updated versions. User said supposedly he was told > this by a member of this mailing list... > > So the way I installed drivers was through the VirtIO ISO (stable) from > fedoraproject site. In Windows installer, in the disk selection step, I > manually loaded all drivers: viostor, NetKVM, Balloon, vioserial, and > qxldod; all of them under w10/amd64 directory. > > However, since I was totally clueless about how to manually install the > SPICE agent in the Windows VM (until much later, when I was able to find a > SPICE manual...), I ended up just running the spice-guest-tools installer > itself. Guess this overwrote many stuff... > > Then I was told here in the list that, at least for the qxl-dod driver, it > can be downloaded also from Spice website. So this would make in total 3 > possible sources for getting drivers. > > Of course I'd like to try mr Ziglio's patches from the other thread to see > if VM performance improves. And after all this background, my doubts would > be: > > --Which source is better advised to get drivers from in general? > > --For the ISO case, are recent patches normally uploaded to the "latest" > branch? Should I better use this branch generally? > > --Are spice-devel and fedoraproject teams really too different? Why > different driver versions between them? > The way things flow are individual driver releases/builds (eg the qxl-wddm-dod build you found on spice-space.org), then they are gathered in the virtio-win iso hosted on fedora infrastructure. From the drivers on that virtio-win iso, the spice-guest-tools installer is generated, so right after release, the virtio-win iso and the spice-guest-tools installer will have the exact same driver versions/binaries. However, the spice-guest-tools executable is not updated as often as the virtio-win iso, so they get out of sync, hence the confusion that you describe. The process is mostly automated today, so hopefully someday they will be much more in sync ;) Christophe
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