[fedora-virt] Why is finding windows spice drivers so hard?

[Alon Levy]

Sorry for not making this a reply to the original (I hope the subject will be
enough), not sure how to do that. Reply inline.

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:04:05PM +0200, Dor Laor wrote:
> On 12/14/2010 01:39 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> >People,
> >
> >There is this guy - actually, a very active guy that helps us a lot in
> >terms of bug reporting and testing - in fedora-virt asking a couple of
> >questions about spice that are left unanswered.
> >
> >Can some of our spice folks take a look and it and try to give him a
> >hand?
> >
> 
> Adding spice-list
> 
> >
> >[fedora-virt] Why is finding windows spice drivers so hard?.eml
> >
> >Subject:
> >[fedora-virt] Why is finding windows spice drivers so hard?
> >From:
> >Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com>
> >Date:
> >Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:09:14 -0500
> >
> >To:
> >Fedora Virt <virt at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> >
> >
> >Is there some conspiracy to obfuscate the best place to
> >find windows guest spice drivers? People seem to invent
> >random names for the files, so you don't know if
> >it is an update of something with a old name or not.
> >Sometimes there are .iso files, sometimes .zip. Most of
> >the web pages offering downloads don't have dates,
> >so you can't tell which are the latest versions.

Enough conspiracies right now, this isn't another one.

> >
> >Why is this so hard?
> >
> >Are the spice-space.org versions on the downloads
> >page always the best versions to grab? And if so,
> >what the heck do I actually need? I know qxl
> >is for video, but what the heck do the other
> >windows binaries actually do? Why do I want them?
> >

Yes, spice-space.org/download.html is the canonical location.
The source repositories are hosted by freedesktop, also linked
from spice-space.org, including the qxl windows driver.

Latest windows driver is http://www.spice-space.org/download/binaries/qxl-win32-0.6.1.zip

The rest of the windows binaries:
 client - the client.
 virtio-serial driver - for agent (copy-paste, better mouse, automatic resize for full screen,
  wan performance by guest changes)
 guest agent - the agent to run in the windows guest for said features
 libraries - only required if you want to build from source. A collection of all the dependencies of
  the client (to build the driver you need only the spice-protocol and windows kernel driver stack).

> >I found a file named kvm-guest-drivers-windows-061510.iso
> >when testing a while back and it seemed to work, but
> >also seems likely to be pretty old these days.

Where is that from?

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> 


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