Bug 1091315

Summary: Add package that includes an .iso with paravirtualized drivers, qxl drivers for windows (like: Spice Guest Tools).
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Samo Dadela <samo_dadela>
Component: virtio-winAssignee: Amnon Ilan <ailan>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bcao, berrange, bsarathy, crobinso, ghammer, rbalakri, sherold, virt-maint, vrozenfe, yvugenfi
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Description Samo Dadela 2014-04-25 11:00:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
Had a hard time figuring out where to get Spice guest tools for windows guests. Finnaly found them at: 
http://www.spice-space.org/download/binaries/spice-guest-tools/

The package includes:
- qxl video driver
- kvm baloon driver
- paravirtualized net and block drivers

Would be nice to have a "Install Spice Guest Tools" in the menu of the VM window.

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Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2014-04-25 12:32:03 UTC 
We can't actually ship the virtio win drivers as part of fedora, since currently they aren't buildable with fedora infrastructure, and that likely won't happen in the future.

However I've had a TODO item for a long time to wrap the iso and extracted driver files in an RPM and publish a separate repo for that. So we can use this bug to track that request.
Comment 2 Samo Dadela 2014-04-25 13:11:03 UTC 
Do you think rpmfusion can host them?
Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2014-04-25 13:27:13 UTC 
I could host them from a fedorapeople page or a copr repo
Comment 6 Cole Robinson 2015-04-30 14:09:23 UTC 
FWIW this is mostly done, I'm just documenting it today. Will update the bug soon
Comment 7 Cole Robinson 2015-04-30 22:02:57 UTC 
Details about the repo are here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers

.iso file still doesn't contain the qxl drivers, but that will be fixed with the next .iso build
Comment 8 Samo Dadela 2015-05-06 07:43:17 UTC 
That's great. Thanks.