[Spice-devel] Guest agent for Windows 8

[Erik Lotspeich]

On 11/21/2012 07:13 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:59:44PM +0200, Arnon Gilboa wrote:
>> Christophe Fergeau wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:34:56AM -0600, Erik Lotspeich wrote:
>>>> I was wondering if there will be a Windows 8 build for the Windows guest
>>>> tools soon. I don't have much experience with Windows development or how
>>>> to compile the source. Is this something that is fairly easy to do? Can
>>>> Cygwin be used, or is Visual Studio required?
>>>
>>> What's wrong exactly with the current tools? The version checks that fails
>>> I guess?
>> I guess so. 'll check it and patch accordingly.
> 
> Ah, I was thinking of a version check I have in spice-guest-tools.exe, not
> in the agent ;)
> 
> Christophe
> 

Correct. The EXE says "unknown windows version".

It seems like Windows 7 drivers/apps generally work on Windows 8 so
maybe this is the only issue.

Regards

Erik