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Bug 1074000

Summary: QXL Driver fails to install from Windows VFD driver floppy.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: wiley crider <wcrider>
Component: spice-qxl-xddmAssignee: Yvugenfi <yvugenfi>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: ---CC: bazulay, cfergeau, dblechte, dfediuck, iheim, james.brown, jgreguske, marcandre.lureau, mikeb, rbalakri, Rhev-m-bugs, sbonazzo, yeylon
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OS: Windows   
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Last Closed: 2014-11-12 13:18:29 UTC Type: Bug
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Description wiley crider 2014-03-07 16:02:03 UTC
Created attachment 871942 [details]
installation failure

Description of problem:

When installing a windows 7 guest with virtio drivers you must attach the virtio driver vfd found in virtio-win. The system will scan the disk and discover storage,network,and video(qxl) drivers. The QXL driver fails to install.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:

1.Install windows 7 guest with virtio devices
2.Attach the virtio driver disk and search for drivers/devices durring the installation when prompted.
3.The system will display storage,network, and video drivers. If you select the video driver the installation will fail.

Actual results:
The driver is not installed. 

Expected results:
The driver is installed or not listed at all.

Additional info:

Screen shots have been attached.

Comment 1 Marc-Andre Lureau 2014-03-07 16:36:11 UTC
I think this bug should be moved to virtio-win, or who ever created that driver disk first (I am guessing Windows Guest tools). Afaik, the Spice team doesn't test the qxl driver installation from the Windows wizard.

How is the guest configured btw, it has a QXL device?

Comment 2 Lev Veyde 2014-03-09 09:30:49 UTC
The workaround is to re-try the driver installation (from the same screen), which then usually succeeds.

Not sure if Virtio-Win team is the right address, as my guess it's something to do with the .inf file of the QXL driver.

Comment 3 Christophe Fergeau 2014-03-10 13:28:05 UTC
(In reply to Lev Veyde from comment #2)
> The workaround is to re-try the driver installation (from the same screen),
> which then usually succeeds.

Ah this indeed worked for me. For what it's worth, when trying this, I first got an error message about missing wdi.dll needed by the driver.
I tested with virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6

Comment 4 Christophe Fergeau 2014-03-10 14:43:13 UTC
Created attachment 872751 [details]
first error showing up

setup.exe - System Error:
The program can't start because wdi.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem

Pressing "ok" and then "next" retries the install which work this time.

Comment 6 Doron Fediuck 2014-03-20 10:52:56 UTC
Jay,
this seems to be related to the .inf file WGT consumes, as mentioned in comment 2.
Any thoughts on how this can happen?

Comment 9 Marc-Andre Lureau 2014-03-31 13:54:41 UTC
very easy workaround in corner case, severity should be lower.