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

[Tom Horsley]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:35:47 +0200
Alon Levy wrote:

> 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)

I finally figured that out, but finding an example of the qemu
arguments required to actually create a proper virtio serial
device for the agent to use was also a major challenge. I did
finally stumble across a wiki page with an example I copied
by rote.

>  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?

There was a fedora 13 directory I found a pointer to somewhere:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/alt/virtio-win/13/images/bin/

There is a similar directory with a '14' instead of a '13', but
it didn't seem to contain any drivers :-).