From: "Bob Doolittle" <bob(a)doolittle.us.com&gt; 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

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Doolittle" <bob(a)doolittle.us.com&gt; > 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/

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From: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "Bob Doolittle" <bob(a)doolittle.us.com&gt;, users(a)ovirt.org, "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; 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&gt; > To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Bob Doolittle" > <bob(a)doolittle.us.com&gt; > Cc: users(a)ovirt.org, "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; > 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&gt; > >> 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 > > > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > Users(a)ovirt.org > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > > -- > Sandro Bonazzola > Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. > See how it works at redhat.com >

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Bob Doolittle" < bob(a)doolittle.us.com&gt; > Cc: users(a)ovirt.org, "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl(a)redhat.com&gt; > 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&gt; > >> 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)

> 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.

From: "Bob Doolittle" <bob(a)doolittle.us.com&gt; To: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow(a)redhat.com&gt; 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.

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 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

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?