[Libosinfo] [PATCH v4 02/12] win8: Add missing cmd script for installer

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Tue May 3 14:09:49 UTC 2016


On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> <zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
>>> <zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
>>>>> <zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cmd file mainly installs spice-guest-tools and that doesn't work for
>>>>>> windows >= 8. As you already mentioned, the avatar doesn't get
>>>>>> installed correctly either so I'm wondering about the usefulness of
>>>>>> this patch, as is.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, at first I thought the avatar was not working because of this
>>>>> missing line and I had to include it, test it and then realize it's
>>>>> not working for any other reason that we don't know yet.
>>>>> So, I don't know, but IMO is better to have everything set as it is
>>>>> expected for a working unattended-installation (it could have saved me
>>>>> some time), mainly because it doesn't cause any harm.
>>>>
>>>> I don't understand the part after "IMO". If the script doesn't do what
>>>> it's supposed to, why do we want to include it? Why not just add it
>>>> commented out with a comment saying why it's not included?
>>>
>>> Well, even if the user avatar doesn't work, installing the
>>> drivers/guest tools should, no?
>>
>> What? I thought we established that spice-guest-tools does not work
>> for Windows >= 8.
>
> IIRC you don't try to install only the spice-guest-tools. You also
> install the virtio drivers, no?

Those drivers are installed by spice-guest-tools. cmd itself does not
install any drivers AFAIK.

> Have you checked if they got installed properly? They should, at least.

IIRC spice-guest-tools first tries to install virtio drivers and then
QXL so I thought it might be successful in installing the former
before it fails on latter. I could not find any evidence of any
drivers installed at least. See the screenshot attached. It's from 8.1
but I'm sure the same applies to 8 as well.

>>
>>> So, considering it does, removing the whole cmd file because the
>>> avatar doesn't work simply doesn't make sense for me.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> From: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>  data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.xml.in | 1 +
>>>>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.xml.in b/data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.xml.in
>>>>>>> index d20b239..50a1a31 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.xml.in
>>>>>>> +++ b/data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.xml.in
>>>>>>> @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
>>>>>>>      <installer>
>>>>>>>        <script id='http://microsoft.com/windows/unattend/jeos'/>
>>>>>>>        <script id='http://microsoft.com/windows/unattend/desktop'/>
>>>>>>> +      <script id='http://microsoft.com/windows/cmd/desktop'/>
>>>>>>>      </installer>
>>>>>>>    </os>
>>>>>>>  </libosinfo>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> 2.7.3
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Fabiano Fidêncio
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)



-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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