[Libguestfs] Fwd: [PATCH] v2v: virtio-win: include *.dll too

Roman Kagan rkagan at virtuozzo.com
Wed Oct 28 11:53:15 UTC 2015


On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:10:19PM +1100, Vadim Rozenfeld wrote:
> > > > To sum up, the packaging and naming policy of the virtio-win rpm and the
> > > > virtio-win iso therein are different and neither is clear.  Hardcoding
> > > > the policy in v2v without actually knowing it appears risky at best.
> 
> It's due to historical reasons mostly. The best way would be having a set of separate 
> distribution images packaged on per-platform base.

Let me try to get the libguestfs requirements straight:

given a set of Windows drivers, it should be able to identify the ones
appropriate for the particular Windows flavor, in order to

  1) tell which devices can be configured

  2) offline-"install" the storage driver and thus enable the guest too
     boot

  3) copy over the matching drivers into the guest and allow it to pick
     them up on the first boot


Obviously virtio-win driver packaging and libguestfs must agree on how
to deal with this.

Could you please provide any guidance on how to address this problem?

Thanks,
Roman.




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