[Spice-devel] Guest agent for Windows 8

[Arnon Gilboa]

Erik Lotspeich wrote:
> 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
>   
Patched,
Arnon
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