[fedora-virt] virtio-win package?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 05:33:52PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:53:22 -0500
> Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> 
> > The documentation is busted. We are not allowed to include virtio-win
> > drivers in Fedora repositories until we can build them without Windows.
> 
> I figured as much, but just thought I'd ask. The new drivers
> do seem to work, but there doesn't appear to be any direct
> way to install them so I can boot from virtio without taking
> a round-about approach.

While it isn't any simpler, but you can probably do something using
guestfish and virt-win-reg.  Extract the driver from the floppy disk
image using guestfish:

$ guestfish --ro -a viostor-31-03-2010-floppy.img
><fs> mount /dev/sda /
><fs> ll /i386/WinXP
total 209
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    512 Apr  5 07:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root    512 Apr  5 07:58 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1320 Apr  5 03:23 viostor.cat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   2417 Mar 31 18:33 viostor.inf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 199680 Apr  5 03:14 viostor.pdb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   8576 Apr  5 03:14 viostor.sys
><fs> download /i386/WinXP/viostor.sys /tmp/viostor.sys

and use the same registry editing technique that we use in virt-v2v to
install the driver:

http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/tip-install-a-device-driver-in-a-windows-vm/#content

Rich.

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