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Thank you Lev for the clarification. We had been installing manually via the ISO, but I had mis-read some other articles about using python to automate the process.
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<div class="">I will pass on the notes around /S and your article to our internal windows team. Maybe they have some ideas around the cert store, or at the very least pass off the manual instructions to our NOC. </div>
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<div class="">I appreciate the response, </div>
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<div class="">On Jun 17, 2015, at 2:55 PM, Lev Veyde <<a href="mailto:lveyde@gmail.com" class="">lveyde@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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First of all lets clear some misunderstanding here - you don't need to manually install Python.<br class="">
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The installation of oVirt WGT is fully self contained, and while the oVirt Guest Agent it includes is indeed programmed in Python, the version included is converted using py2exe (check
<a href="http://py2exe.org/" class="">py2exe.org</a> for more details if it interests you) into a standalone executable (well, almost - just like Windows version of Python.exe, it depends on Microsoft Visual Studio CRTL, but we install it during the installation
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<div class="">Now about the automated installation. Generally we support silent installation of oVirt WGT.<br class="">
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<div class="">You just need to supply /S command parameter to the installer.<br class="">
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<div class="">However there is a catch - unfortunately Windows will popup warning messages due to the fact that the drivers supplied are non-WHQL'd. That is because the drivers are signed by Red Hat, Inc. and not by Microsoft certificate.<br class="">
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<div class="">This is a security feature of Windows OS itself, and there is not much we can do about it right now.<br class="">
The side effect of this is that you need to manually approve the drivers installation for each driver, or choose to trust all drivers from Red Hat, Inc., and then no more popups will show up. Unfortunately, you still need to do this manually at least once,
and you can't pre-approve Red Hat, Inc. to make this process automated. For more information on installing oVirt WGT you can check this article:
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http://community.redhat.com/blog/2015/05/how-to-install-and-use-ovirts-windows-guest-tools/</a> by yours truly.<br class="">
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<div class="">There is a workaround though, and it's to create a program that will automatically approve such unsigned drivers dialogs. It's relatively easy to program with i.e. AutoIt scripting engine (check:
<a href="https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/" class="">https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/</a> ), which is free (like in free beer, but unfortunately not as in freedom because source code for it is not supplied). Note that you must be quite careful
with that, as by doing so you basically disabling the security mechanism that Microsoft had put in place for a reason, and potentially you may unintentionally install other non-WHQL'd drivers - if the installation attempt for these other drivers will be made
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Lev Veyde.<br class="">
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