2:43 a.m.
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
5:47 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Doolittle" <bob(a)doolittle.us.com>
To: users(a)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/
Greg
12:27 p.m.
On 11/05/2013 04:47 AM, Greg Sheremeta wrote:
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Doolittle" <bob(a)doolittle.us.com>
> To: users(a)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/
I think would be great if anyone is willing to send some patches to
pre-populate the iso domain with this package.
12:30 p.m.
New subject: [Users] virtio-win packaging [Was Re: Installing Windows VMs]
Il 05/11/2013 03:47, Greg Sheremeta ha scritto:
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Doolittle" <bob(a)doolittle.us.com>
> To: users(a)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.
Greg
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7:49 p.m.
New subject: [Users] virtio-win packaging [Was Re: Installing Windows VMs]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme(a)redhat.com>, "Bob Doolittle"
<bob(a)doolittle.us.com>
Cc: users(a)ovirt.org, "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)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(a)doolittle.us.com>
>> To: users(a)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)
Greg
>
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9:57 p.m.
New subject: [Users] virtio-win packaging [Was Re: Installing Windows VMs]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme(a)redhat.com>
To: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "Bob Doolittle" <bob(a)doolittle.us.com>, users(a)ovirt.org, "Alon
Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 6:49:46 PM
Subject: Re: virtio-win packaging [Was Re: [Users] Installing Windows VMs]
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
> To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme(a)redhat.com>, "Bob
Doolittle"
> <bob(a)doolittle.us.com>
> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org, "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)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(a)doolittle.us.com>
> >> To: users(a)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 :)
No problem, but maybe this work should go into fedora and not ovirt...
But first, let's have something working.
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)
Greg
> >
> > Greg
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Users(a)ovirt.org
> > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> >
>
>
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> See how it works at redhat.com
>
11:53 a.m.
New subject: [Users] virtio-win packaging [Was Re: Installing Windows VMs]
On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 11:49 -0500, Greg Sheremeta wrote:
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
> To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme(a)redhat.com>, "Bob
Doolittle" <bob(a)doolittle.us.com>
> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org, "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)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(a)doolittle.us.com>
> >> To: users(a)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)
Very nice, thanks!
Will you also package/create the virtual floppy disk?
On http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/
there's only the ISO, but not the vfd and installing Windows is much
easier with drivers on a floppy then changing the install CDs...
Thanks,
René
Bug 1026933 - pre-populate ISO domain with virtio-win ISO (depends on
1026930, need someone to take)
Greg
> >
> > Greg
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Users(a)ovirt.org
> > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> >
>
>
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4:29 p.m.
New subject: [Users] virtio-win packaging [Was Re: Installing Windows VMs]
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Greg Sheremeta <gshereme(a)redhat.com> wrote:
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
> To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme(a)redhat.com>, "Bob
Doolittle" <
bob(a)doolittle.us.com>
> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org, "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)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(a)doolittle.us.com>
> >> To: users(a)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
8:50 p.m.
New subject: [Users] virtio-win packaging [Was Re: Installing Windows VMs]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Doolittle" <bob(a)doolittle.us.com>
To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme(a)redhat.com>
Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 8:29:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Users] virtio-win packaging [Was Re: Installing Windows
VMs]
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Greg Sheremeta <
gshereme(a)redhat.com
> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sandro Bonazzola" < sbonazzo(a)redhat.com >
> > To: "Greg Sheremeta" < gshereme(a)redhat.com >, "Bob
Doolittle" <
> > bob(a)doolittle.us.com >
> > Cc: users(a)ovirt.org , "Alon Bar-Lev" < alonbl(a)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(a)doolittle.us.com >
> > >> To: users(a)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?
Might need to have different manifest in the virtual floppy that the VFD based on the size
limitations
eg. just enough (virtio-blk,net) in VFD but all in ISO.
-Bob
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6:19 p.m.
New subject: [Users] virtio-win packaging [Was Re: Installing Windows VMs]
On 11/07/2013 12:50 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
> Should we also consider pre-populating the Guest Additions, such
as
> the SPICE optimized driver?
Might need to have different manifest in the virtual floppy that the VFD based on the
size limitations
eg. just enough (virtio-blk,net) in VFD but all in ISO.
Yes, I meant two separate items - the VFD plus the ISO, just as is done
with RHEV today. Somehow that never got pushed to the Community. Rather
than duplicate work, somebody might want to simply push that code
upstream, assuming that's not a problem with RedHat.
Also note that since the Quick Start Guide is written to assume these
items are pre-populated, that should be considered a bug today. Either
the QSG should be updated to remove this note until the functionality is
actually present, or we can simply add the func to match the doc (which
would be less work in the long run) :)
As requested, I have opened a (separate) bug/rfe to track this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1028489
I am not sure they need to be separate bugs, but I started it this way
and somebody can lump this in and close this as a dup if they like.
-Bob
5:43 p.m.
New subject: [Users] virtio-win packaging [Was Re: Installing Windows VMs]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Doolittle" <bob(a)doolittle.us.com>
To: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow(a)redhat.com>
Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Friday, November 8, 2013 10:19:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Users] virtio-win packaging [Was Re: Installing Windows VMs]
On 11/07/2013 12:50 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
>> Should we also consider pre-populating the Guest Additions, such
>> as
>> the SPICE optimized driver?
> Might need to have different manifest in the virtual floppy that
> the VFD based on the size limitations
> eg. just enough (virtio-blk,net) in VFD but all in ISO.
Yes, I meant two separate items - the VFD plus the ISO, just as is
done
with RHEV today. Somehow that never got pushed to the Community.
Rather
than duplicate work, somebody might want to simply push that code
upstream, assuming that's not a problem with RedHat.
It's just a matter of packaging. The virtio drivers are all pushed on to the fedora
site and the spice driver onto spice-space.org.
And the tools installers etc are on the ftp site @
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhev-m/3.x/src-zips/
Also note that since the Quick Start Guide is written to assume these
items are pre-populated, that should be considered a bug today.
Either
the QSG should be updated to remove this note until the functionality
is
actually present, or we can simply add the func to match the doc
(which
would be less work in the long run) :)
As requested, I have opened a (separate) bug/rfe to track this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1028489
I am not sure they need to be separate bugs, but I started it this
way
and somebody can lump this in and close this as a dup if they like.
-Bob
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9:34 p.m.
New subject: [Users] virtio-win packaging [Was Re: Installing Windows VMs]
On 11/10/2013 09:43 AM, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
It's just a matter of packaging. The virtio drivers are all
pushed on
to the fedora site and the spice driver onto spice-space.org. And the
tools installers etc are on the ftp site @
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhev-m/3.x/src-zips/
Is it not also a matter of wiring in appropriate engine-upload-iso
commands into engine-setup or similar, so that the ISO domain is
actually populated with this content?
-Bob
1:44 p.m.
New subject: [Users] virtio-win packaging [Was Re: Installing Windows VMs]
On 11/10/2013 01:34 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
On 11/10/2013 09:43 AM, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
> It's just a matter of packaging. The virtio drivers are all pushed on
> to the fedora site and the spice driver onto spice-space.org. And the
> tools installers etc are on the ftp site @
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhev-m/3.x/src-zips/
Is it not also a matter of wiring in appropriate engine-upload-iso
commands into engine-setup or similar, so that the ISO domain is
actually populated with this content?
yes, but that's a trivial plugin.
since the installer creates the default nfs iso domain on the engine, it
just needs to copy it over to the folder.
(or does it create a link so rpm updates of the iso/vfd will be always
visible there - sandro?)
for other iso domains, currently admin needs to push via iso uploader.
thanks,
Itamar
10:46 p.m.
On 11/04/2013 09:47 PM, Greg Sheremeta wrote:
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/
I'm trying to help somebody update the Quick Start Guide in the interim
until these items are pre-populated.
But if I go to that link, I see only:
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/virtio-...
In other words, no vfd.
Oddly, there was one there in the past:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110501124422/http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pu...
Even more oddly, the old one has what looks like a more recent version
number: virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd
Can anybody explain how this has transpired? Where did the old vfd go,
and why are the version numbers going backwards?
Is there an actual vfd in existence today that anybody can safely
download and use engine-iso-uploader with?
There is also this one, which is actually what I wound up using:
https://launchpad.net/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/20120712/20120712/+downlo...
Are either of these VFDs safe to use? Is one preferred?
Guidance please?
Thanks,
Bob
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