[Users] virtio-win packaging [Was Re: Installing Windows VMs]

[Alon Bar-Lev]

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