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Description of problem:
Serial driver seems missing in virtio-win downstream package:
This is an extract of the content of https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/virtio-win/1.9.0-3.el7
/usr/share/virtio-win/drivers/amd64/Win2008R2/
/usr/share/virtio-win/drivers/amd64/Win2008R2/qxl.cat
/usr/share/virtio-win/drivers/amd64/Win2008R2/qxl.inf
/usr/share/virtio-win/drivers/amd64/Win2008R2/qxl.sys
/usr/share/virtio-win/drivers/amd64/Win2008R2/qxldd.dll
/usr/share/virtio-win/drivers/amd64/Win2008R2/netkvm.cat
/usr/share/virtio-win/drivers/amd64/Win2008R2/netkvm.inf
/usr/share/virtio-win/drivers/amd64/Win2008R2/netkvm.sys
/usr/share/virtio-win/drivers/amd64/Win2008R2/vioscsi.cat
/usr/share/virtio-win/drivers/amd64/Win2008R2/vioscsi.inf
/usr/share/virtio-win/drivers/amd64/Win2008R2/vioscsi.sys
/usr/share/virtio-win/drivers/amd64/Win2008R2/viostor.cat
/usr/share/virtio-win/drivers/amd64/Win2008R2/viostor.inf
/usr/share/virtio-win/drivers/amd64/Win2008R2/viostor.sys
An this is an extract of the files in the upstream package https://launchpad.net/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/+download
./serial/server_2008
./serial/server_2008/amd64
./serial/server_2008/amd64/trans.tbl
./serial/server_2008/amd64/vioser.cat
./serial/server_2008/amd64/vioser.inf
./serial/server_2008/amd64/vioser.sys
./serial/server_2008/amd64/vioser_test.exe
./serial/server_2008/amd64/wdfcoinstaller01009.dll
./serial/server_2008/trans.tbl
./serial/server_2008/x86
./serial/server_2008/x86/trans.tbl
./serial/server_2008/x86/vioser.cat
./serial/server_2008/x86/vioser.inf
./serial/server_2008/x86/vioser.sys
./serial/server_2008/x86/vioser_test.exe
./serial/server_2008/x86/wdfcoinstaller01009.dll
vioser is missing in downstream package
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download the specified packages
2. compare it
3.
Actual results:
vioser is missing
Expected results:
vioser present, its necessary to install qemu-guest-agent-win
Hi,
(In reply to Eduard Barrera from comment #0)
> An this is an extract of the files in the upstream package
> https://launchpad.net/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/+download
It looks like the author of this package decided to include the vioserial driver directly. The RHEL package does this only for NetKVM, QXL, vioscsi and viostor, everything else is available in the .ISO. The rationale is that all but boot-critical drivers are expected to be installed by attaching the .ISO to the VM anyway.
If you need to extract the vioserial driver on the host, you can do so by running:
$ sudo mount -o loop /usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win.iso /mnt/myiso
mount: /dev/loop0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
$ ls -l /mnt/myiso/vioserial/2k8R2/amd64/
total 3094
-r--r--r--. 2 root root 10260 Aug 30 2016 vioser.cat
-r-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 3070 Aug 11 2016 vioser.inf
-r-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 1363968 Aug 11 2016 vioser.pdb
-r-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 68168 Aug 11 2016 vioser.sys
-r-xr-xr-x. 14 root root 1721576 Mar 30 2015 WdfCoInstaller01009.dll