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

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Thu Feb 14 14:09:41 UTC 2013


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Christophe Fergeau
<cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 06:41:08PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
>>
>> Add an all-in-one virtio and QXL device driver setup binary to Windows
>> XP and 7. This needs to be listed separately from virtio block driver as
>> not all of these are pre-installable.
>>
>> As bonus, the same binary also installs spice-vdagent for us.
>> ---
>>  data/oses/windows.xml.in | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/data/oses/windows.xml.in b/data/oses/windows.xml.in
>> index f60786c..3b050a3 100644
>> --- a/data/oses/windows.xml.in
>> +++ b/data/oses/windows.xml.in
>> @@ -400,6 +400,27 @@
>>        <file>txtsetup.oem</file>
>>        <device id="http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids/1af4/1001"/>
>>      </driver>
>> +
>> +    <!-- All virtio and QXL device drivers, and spice-vdagent -->
>> +    <driver arch="i386" location="http://zeenix.fedorapeople.org/drivers/win-tools/postinst" format="script" signed="false">
>> +      <file>spice-guest-tools-0.3.exe</file>
>> +      <file>spice-guest-tools-0.3.cmd</file>
>> +      <device id="http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids/1af4/1000"/>
>> +      <device id="http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids/1af4/1001"/>
>> +      <device id="http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids/1af4/1002"/>
>> +      <device id="http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids/1af4/1003"/>
>> +      <device id="http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids/1b36/0100"/>
>> +    </driver>
>
> 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.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124




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