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

2013-05-07 Thread Frank Moss
Christophe, Sorry for a delay on this thread, i just found it. To illuminate Simone's issue (that also adversely effect me) is that, though the QXL drivers work in 32 bit Windows 7, we are unable to install them in the 64bit version of Windows 7 without having to either permanently disable driver

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

2013-01-29 Thread Christophe Fergeau
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:25:19PM +0100, Simone Caronni wrote: For this use case, all they need to do is to grab the spice-guest-tools installer and run that, the mess you describe is the exact reason why I'm building this installer. The installer works good and is a very

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

2013-01-27 Thread Erik van Pienbroek
Christophe Fergeau schreef op do 24-01-2013 om 11:40 [+0100]: On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 07:59:24PM +0100, Erik van Pienbroek wrote: The mingw-w64 compiler which is currently in Fedora should be capable of building virtio as the DDK pieces are also bundled (in the folder

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

2013-01-24 Thread Christophe Fergeau
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 05:18:10PM +0100, Simone Caronni wrote: On 23 January 2013 16:11, Christophe Fergeau cferg...@redhat.com wrote: 1) Recent version from Fedora in iso format - No WHQL, no changelog, no QXL drivers, no Spice Agent available, no source Err, there are sources,

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

2013-01-24 Thread Simone Caronni
Hello, On 24 January 2013 11:31, Christophe Fergeau cferg...@redhat.com wrote: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers My understanding is that they are based on the git repo linked there if this is the information you want. Unfortunately no, they're totally

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

2013-01-24 Thread Christophe Fergeau
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 07:59:24PM +0100, Erik van Pienbroek wrote: Richard W.M. Jones schreef op za 12-01-2013 om 01:24 [+]: Do the virtio drivers now build using the mingw-* stack in Fedora? IIRC this should be possible now that Fedora has switched over to using mingw-w64. The git

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

2013-01-23 Thread Christophe Fergeau
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 04:39:06PM +0100, Simone Caronni wrote: Spinning of from this, I think there is some mess around the Virtio drivers; I would be glad if someone could explain that to me. Sorry for the length of this mail but I could not shorten it. Let's say I would like to grab the

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

2013-01-23 Thread Christophe Fergeau
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 09:11:45AM +, Tom Hughes wrote: On 09/01/13 17:33, Tom Hughes wrote: On 09/01/13 15:39, Simone Caronni wrote: - Build also the Spice Agent for 32/64 bit (this is done at spice-space.org http://spice-space.org as part of the Spice Guest Tools) Actually that's

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

2013-01-23 Thread Simone Caronni
On 23 January 2013 16:11, Christophe Fergeau cferg...@redhat.com wrote: 1) Recent version from Fedora in iso format - No WHQL, no changelog, no QXL drivers, no Spice Agent available, no source Err, there are sources, see

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

2013-01-23 Thread drago01
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:24 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 04:39:06PM +0100, Simone Caronni wrote: I'm not asking for WHQL as I understand this is a benefit for the Redhat subscriptions. Actually WHQL simply cannot be done by Fedora even if we wanted

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

2013-01-23 Thread Simone Caronni
On 23 January 2013 17:20, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: Actually WHQL simply cannot be done by Fedora even if we wanted to. It's an MSFT test programme that costs money, plus MSFT refuse to do it for GPL drivers. If that is the case then GPL is a poor license choice in that case

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

2013-01-12 Thread Simone Caronni
On 12 January 2013 02:24, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: Actually WHQL simply cannot be done by Fedora even if we wanted to. It's an MSFT test programme that costs money, plus MSFT refuse to do it for GPL drivers. Now i understand why we don't have the sources, thanks. Do the

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

2013-01-12 Thread Erik van Pienbroek
Richard W.M. Jones schreef op za 12-01-2013 om 01:24 [+]: Do the virtio drivers now build using the mingw-* stack in Fedora? IIRC this should be possible now that Fedora has switched over to using mingw-w64. The git repo for the virtio drivers only contains msvc project files, so in order

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

2013-01-11 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 04:39:06PM +0100, Simone Caronni wrote: I'm not asking for WHQL as I understand this is a benefit for the Redhat subscriptions. Actually WHQL simply cannot be done by Fedora even if we wanted to. It's an MSFT test programme that costs money, plus MSFT refuse to do it for

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

2013-01-10 Thread Tom Hughes
On 09/01/13 17:33, Tom Hughes wrote: On 09/01/13 15:39, Simone Caronni wrote: - Build also the Spice Agent for 32/64 bit (this is done at spice-space.org http://spice-space.org as part of the Spice Guest Tools) Actually that's 32 bit only. I've never found a spice agent for 64 bit versions

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

2013-01-09 Thread Simone Caronni
Spinning of from this, I think there is some mess around the Virtio drivers; I would be glad if someone could explain that to me. Sorry for the length of this mail but I could not shorten it. Let's say I would like to grab the latest virtio drivers and tools for my Windows guest and the

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

2013-01-09 Thread Simone Caronni
On 9 January 2013 16:39, Simone Caronni negativ...@gmail.com wrote: 5) Official RHEL drivers (need an account for this) - virtio-win-1.5.3-1.el6_3.noarch.rpm - Contains signed and WHQL drivers for everything. - Always a bit older than the Fedora ones. - Follows the same numbering and logs as

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

2013-01-09 Thread Tom Hughes
On 09/01/13 15:39, Simone Caronni wrote: - Build also the Spice Agent for 32/64 bit (this is done at spice-space.org http://spice-space.org as part of the Spice Guest Tools) Actually that's 32 bit only. I've never found a spice agent for 64 bit versions of Windows anywhere. Tom -- Tom

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

2013-01-09 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 01/09/13 16:39, Simone Caronni wrote: 6) Yan Vugenfirer's repository - Contains only source, and is public. - Does not match with Fedora or RHEL provided drivers. - Contains only the Virtio drivers, no Spice Agent or QXL driver.