Fedora Windows Spice/Virtio KVM drivers and tools (was Re: Red Hat QXL GPU Driver for Windows 7?)

[Simone Caronni]

Hello,

On 29 January 2013 14:23, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:

> Win7 32 bit does allow unsigned (by MS/WHQL) drivers, Win7 64 bit does not.
>

I've tested the latest qxl driver on a Win7 32 bit installation and it
> installed properly, so I don't know what problem you are trying to point
> at, I don't see any different behaviour between the qxl driver and the
> virtio ones.
>

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit in fact; apparently there's no difference but
QXL does not work. It seems Windows needs signed drivers only for VGA
devices.

In the archive (drivers-details.tar.gz) are the driver details from the
windows hardware manager; none is signed.
Attached is a screenshot (qxl-error.png) with the QXL driver exhibiting
this odd behaviour (error 52); the other drivers work fine.

To make it work, I have to enable testsigning in the guest
(test-signing.png):
**
bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON

Might I ask you if you could create an additional screen in Spice Guest
Tools to enable "Test Signing"? Like a tick mark or something like that.
Or maybe a simple notice that it has been enabled in Windows 7+.

I'm available for testing if you would like some help.

Thanks & regards,
--Simone

-- 
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of
the shore (R. W. Emerson).
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