[fedora-virt] balloon drivers missing in virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 02:33 -0400, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Onkar N Mahajan" <kernzap at gmail.com>
> > To: kvm at vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel at nongnu.org
> > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:03:26 AM
> > Subject: balloon drivers missing in virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd
> > 
> > virtio_balloon drivers are missing in the virtio-win floppy disk
> > image
> > found at
> > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/
> > whereas they are present in the ISO image , any specific reason for
> > this ? Shouldn't they be ideally present ?


The vfd is not supposed to contain the full set of drivers, it is meant
to be the bare minimum drivers required to install (and fit in 1.44mb).
The vfd only contains network and block drivers so that you can install
the system and grab the full set of drivers from the ISO or another
location.  Later versions of Windows can install using the ISO for
drivers and do not need the vfd at all.

Justin