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

Bob Doolittle bob at doolittle.us.com
Fri Nov 8 15:19:58 UTC 2013


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




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