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

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Doolittle" <bob at doolittle.us.com>
> To: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow at redhat.com>
> Cc: users at 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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