[Libosinfo] [v2 7/8] winxp, win7: Add virtio & QXL device drivers info

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 03:19:27PM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 04:09:41PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Christophe Fergeau
> > <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > I think we could go with a finer grained approach here, and use the rundll
> > > command described in
> > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376957%28v=vs.85%29.aspx to
> > > install individual unpacked drivers, but it's fine to go with the
> > > all-in-one installer as a first step.
> > 
> > I totally agree about going with fine-grained option would be better
> > but since unfortunately vdagent setup is not available separately, I
> > do think of vdagent as a big bonus point of using this binary.
> 
> As I already said, this is just an ugly side-effect, which we shouldn't use
> as an excuse to avoid proper integration of agent installation into libosinfo.
> 
> Something that could work is to have some fake device for the spice
> channel that the agent use, and list vioserial and some kind of agent
> installer as the drivers for this device.

NB: I'm still fine with using the all-in-one installer for now as this
should not prevent us from moving to something better later.

Christophe
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