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

[Yan Vugenfirer]

> On 28 Oct 2015, at 13:53, Roman Kagan <rkagan at virtuozzo.com> wrote:
> 
> 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?

As Vadim said: "The best way would be having a set of separate distribution images packaged on per-platform base.”

Otherwise you will have to maintain the knowledge of binary compatibility between Windows platforms, which is different according to the driver type.


> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.