[Libguestfs] [PATCH 6/7] v2v: quiet virtio net and balloon devices wizards

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 21:08 +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > I'll talk to our guys doing similar things.  I wonder what they do 
> > --
> > they must have similar problems.
> 
> Indeed they do.  The solution we're considering ATM is
> 
> 1) make the installer support running on a system where the drivers
> are
>    already installed

Our installer is already able to handle this case.

> 2) make sure firstboot scripts aren't run before PnP is complete
> 
> This should resolve the conflict you wrote about, by making the
> drivers
> brought in by v2v fully installed via standard Windows PnP manager
> first, and running the installer afterwards.

I think it can't hurt to get the firstboot script run before PnP... but
I have no idea how to do that, but may be you have one ;)

> Item (2) is also useful to avoid similar conflicts with other
> firstboot
> scripts, because PnP often requires a reboot, and those firstboot
> scripts may not tolerate a reboot in the middle of execution.
> 
> Will this work for you?

Sure. If we manage to run the first boot before PnP this hack is no
longer needed.

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Cedric