[ovirt-users] ovirt 4.05 windows balloon service installation wrong path

[Simone Tiraboschi]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Andrea Ghelardi <a.ghelardi at iontrading.com>
wrote:

> Hello team,
>
> FYI standard installation of Guest tool on Windows server O.S. is somehow
> flawed.
>
> It setups a windows service named “BalloonService” with path
>
> C:\Program Files (x86)\oVirt Guest Tools\drivers\Balloon\w2k8R2\
> amd64\blnsvr.exe
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, the real path created on filesystem is
>
> C:\Program Files (x86)\oVirt Guest Tools\drivers\Balloon\2k8R2\amd64\blnsvr.exe
>
>
> (please note the missing “w” after \Baloon\ )
>

Thanks for the report Andrea, checking...


>
>
> The easy workaround is to run this command on a “run as admin” cmd shell:
>
> sc config BalloonService binpath= "C:\Program Files (x86)\oVirt Guest
> Tools\drivers\Balloon\2k8R2\amd64\blnsvr.exe" DisplayName= "Baloon
> Service Ovirt 4" start= auto
>
>
>
> I suggest to fix either the command that create path during installation
> or the one which setup the service
>
>
>
> cheers
>
>
>
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