On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Greg Sheremeta <gshereme@redhat.com> wrote:


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo@redhat.com>
> To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme@redhat.com>, "Bob Doolittle" <bob@doolittle.us.com>
> Cc: users@ovirt.org, "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl@redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 4:30:11 AM
> Subject: virtio-win packaging [Was Re: [Users] Installing Windows VMs]
>
> Il 05/11/2013 03:47, Greg Sheremeta ha scritto:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Bob Doolittle" <bob@doolittle.us.com>
> >> To: users@ovirt.org
> >> Sent: Monday, November 4, 2013 6:43:00 PM
> >> Subject: [Users] Installing Windows VMs
> >>
> >> In the QuickStart Guide, it implies that you should find a virtual
> >> floppy image for virtio-win in the ISO_DOMAIN. Or at least I can find no
> >> information on where to find/populate that image before the Guide shows
> >> its use.
> >>
> >> However, in my default 3.3 installation, there was nothing pre-populated
> >> in my ISO_DOMAIN. Should there have been?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>      Bob
> >>
> >
> > I've never seen that happen on any of my installs.
> >
> > You can grab the drivers at
> > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/
>
> Anyone would like to step in for packaging virtio-win so we can add it to
> ovirt repository?
> So we can add it as dependency and have ISO_DOMAIN populated.
>
>

I can take it, if alonbl doesn't mind me asking him a few questions about packaging :)

Bug 1026930 - Package virtio-win and put it in ovirt repositories  (I'll do this)
Bug 1026933 - pre-populate ISO domain with virtio-win ISO (depends on 1026930, need someone to take)


This is great!
Should we also consider pre-populating the Guest Additions, such as the SPICE optimized driver?

-Bob