[ovirt-users] useful workaround for catch-22 situation with nic drivers and Windows

Hello, I just wanted to post a nice workaround I came up with in case it helps anybody. The reason I needed it is that in oVirt 4.4, it appears I am unable to change the nic1 type when creating VMs (maybe that's a bug?) and I necessarily end up with the default nic1 type which needs a virtio driver in Windows which is obviously not present on a clean install. Also, since there is no networking, it can't be downloaded. I did think of mounting a USB stick via remote-viewer, but something is wonky there too - the USB device selection menu item is grayed out, and no, it's not permissions. So what i did was to create an .iso file with spice-guest-tools-latest.exe in it and copy the resulting iso file to the ISO domain. Then, I was easily able to attach the ISO to the Windows machine in question and install spice-guest-tools, which made the network adapter work. Quick snippet of how I created the .iso: $ find test test test/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe $ mkisofs -o spice-tools.iso test I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings) Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0 Total directory bytes: 116 Path table size(bytes): 10 Max brk space used 0 5124 extents written (10 MB) Hope it helps somebody :). Cheers! iordan -- The conscious mind has only one thread of execution.