[Libguestfs] Proposal for tools to inspect drivers and inject Windows virtio drivers

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 09:45:11PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> For (b), you could specify the location of the Window disk image and
> the virtio-win path/ISO to have it attempt to install the drivers in
> the disk image:
> 
> $ virt-customize -a windows.img \
>                  --inject-virtio-win /usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win-1.2.3.iso
> 
> This would largely involve taking the current virtio-win code from
> virt-v2v, turning it into a library, and then adding a new module into
> libguestfs-common/mlcustomize.  (It would be a good time to refactor
> this code.)

This part is upstream in guestfs-tools 1.49.8.

(There are numerous commits across libguestfs, guestfs-tools, virt-v2v
and libguestfs-common to make this happen.)

Rich.

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