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

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alon Levy" <alevy at redhat.com>
> To: virt at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 6:35:47 AM
> Subject: [fedora-virt] Why is finding windows spice drivers so hard?
> 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).
> 

Long term Red Hat will publish a signed, WHQL'd Spice driver for the community. There's some work we have to do first including licensing - there's some challenges involved, for example GPL is prohibited from Microsoft WHQL program so we have to jump through a few hoops.



> > >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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