----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alon Levy" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > 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 <[email protected]> > > >Date: > > >Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:09:14 -0500 > > > > > >To: > > >Fedora Virt <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > >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? > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >virt mailing list > > >[email protected] > > >https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt > > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > _______________________________________________ > virt mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
