Bug 1223126

Summary:	Consider dropping the .vfd files from the .iso (but _not_ the .rpm)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Component:	virtio-win	Assignee:	Danilo de Paula <ddepaula>
virtio-win sub component:	distribution	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	Docs Contact:
Severity:	unspecified
Priority:	unspecified	CC:	ailan, cfergeau, ddepaula, eglynn, jen, lijin, lmiksik, lveyde, vrozenfe, ymankad
Version:	7.3	Keywords:	Reopened
Target Milestone:	rc
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Last Closed:	2018-04-10 06:28:08 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Cole Robinson 2015-05-19 23:02:04 UTC

For some reason we ship the .vfd images on the .iso. I don't really understand what purpose that serves, the .vfd images are only for VM install time. So it seems they just needlessly add a few megabytes to the iso.

We should check with stake holders to make sure no one is depending on them, and if not, drop them from the iso. I think the only people we need to check with is RHEV/ovirt.

Comment 11 Danilo de Paula 2017-05-31 14:47:45 UTC

Tried to reach the affected part and didn't get a reply.
I'm closing this as WONTFIX.

Comment 12 Cole Robinson 2017-05-31 15:08:03 UTC

I'm pretty certain no teams are actually depending on this, so IMO this should still be removed and see if anyone complains. Keeping the VFD on the ISO is really redundant and just increases the (already large) package size

Comment 13 Jeff Nelson 2017-06-15 14:15:39 UTC

This looks easy enough to do; just add

   -m '*.vfd'

to the mkisofs command in virtio-win.spec.

We should measure the size impact. The current size of virtio-win-1.9.1-0.el7.noarch.rpm is 31M (32435472).

Clearing needinfo; given that there has been no response it's reasonable to assume there is no interest and/or impact.

Re-opening the BZ and deferring to rhel-7.5.

Comment 16 lijin 2018-01-18 02:15:31 UTC

Check in virtio-win-1.9.4-1.el7.noarch, there is no vfd in the iso file.

So change status to verified.

Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 06:28:08 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0657