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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 06:49:32PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 09:45:11PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > (a) Inspecting a virtual machine disk image to find out what virtual
> >     devices it needs (ie. what drivers are installed in the guest).
> 
> guestfs-tools 1.49.9 contains a new tool called 'virt-drivers' which
> has this functionality extracted from virt-v2v.  It's Linux only at
> the moment (like virt-v2v).  Implementing this for Windows is TBD.

The virt-drivers tool supports listing Windows drivers starting with
1.49.10, so for example you can use this to tell if a Windows guest
has virtio drivers (or VMware drivers) suitable for the target
hypervisor.

Rich.

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