Bug 1745302

Summary: ovirt-guest-tools has been obsoleted by virtio-win guest tools
Product: [oVirt] ovirt-guest-tools Reporter: Gal Zaidman <gzaidman>
Component: GeneralAssignee: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: rhev-docs <rhev-docs>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 4.3-3CC: bugs, emarcus, lleistne, rdlugyhe, sbonazzo, sgoodman
Target Milestone: ovirt-4.4.0Keywords: Documentation, NoDocsQEReview
Target Release: ---Flags: sbonazzo: ovirt-4.4?
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: ovirt-release44-4.4.0_alpha_2 Doc Type: Release Note
Doc Text:
oVirt 4.4 replaces the ovirt-guest-tools with a new WiX-based installer, included in Virtio-Win. You can download the ISO file containing the Windows guest drivers, agents, and installers from https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-virtio/
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Last Closed: 2020-06-18 11:25:18 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Gal Zaidman 2019-08-25 08:54:32 UTC
At the current state the project is an NSIS based installer which installs the virtio-win drivers and relevant agents, the project is completely different from the D/S guest tools.

On 4.4 we intend to move away from that split and use the new virtio-win Wix toolset based installer which will be provided inside the virtio-win iso.

Comment 1 Steve Goodman 2019-11-06 10:22:19 UTC
Hi Sandro and Gal,


How's this edit of what you wrote for the Release Note?

oVirt 4.4 replaces the ovirt-guest-tools a with a new WiX-based installer, included in Virtio-Win. You can download the ISO file containing the Windows guest drivers, agents and installers from https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-virtio/

Comment 2 Gal Zaidman 2019-11-07 13:32:53 UTC
(In reply to Steve Goodman from comment #1)
> Hi Sandro and Gal,
> 
> 
> How's this edit of what you wrote for the Release Note?
> 
> oVirt 4.4 replaces the ovirt-guest-tools a with a new WiX-based installer,
> included in Virtio-Win. You can download the ISO file containing the Windows
> guest drivers, agents and installers from
> https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-
> virtio/

great!

Comment 3 Sandro Bonazzola 2019-11-08 07:37:35 UTC
(In reply to Steve Goodman from comment #1)
> Hi Sandro and Gal,
> 
> 
> How's this edit of what you wrote for the Release Note?
> 
> oVirt 4.4 replaces the ovirt-guest-tools a with a new WiX-based installer,
> included in Virtio-Win. You can download the ISO file containing the Windows
> guest drivers, agents and installers from
> https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-
> virtio/

Updated doc text with your suggestion, thanks!