[Users] what drivers are used

[Cristian Falcas]

Can you help me understand how this works:
- if I set the console to vnc, windows found a video driver for a
cirrus logic card
- if I set the console to spice, it sees the qxl graphic adaptor

What is the point of using different drivers?

In case I connect only via rdp, does it matter how the console is set?
Which one is recommended?


Just to let others how to load the guest tools easily in the VM:
- download the exe file
- make an iso from the file:
  mkisofs -J -r -o spice-guest-tools.iso ./spice-guest-tools-0.1.exe
- give the proper attributes:
  chown vdsm:kvm spice-guest-tools.iso
- copy it to the iso folder
- assign the new iso to the VM

Best regards,



On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:38 AM, David Jaša <djasa at redhat.com> wrote:
> Cristian Falcas píše v Po 29. 10. 2012 v 10:56 +0200:
>> Then qxl, but how do I install the drivers for Windows? At least
>> Windows XP can't find anything on the iso I use: it seems that there
>> are only scsi, net and baloon drivers there.
>
> Use Windows Guest Tools from here:
> http://spice-space.org/download.html
>
> David
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On 10/29/2012 12:01 AM, Cristian Falcas wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> What video and sound card is ovirt using? From what i've read, for kvm
>> >> it seems that the best video driver will be the vmware one.
>> >
>> >
>> > why not the spice one (qxl)?
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Also, is the iso from
>> >> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/ the
>> >> correct one? I have in windows no driver for video and also another
>> >> unknown PCI device, but Windows can't find any driver on that iso.
>> >>
>> >> Best regards,
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