[Spice-devel] HOWTO: construct spice-guest-tools-0.59-win.{vfd, iso}

[Christophe Fergeau]

Hey Eric,

Thanks for this howto!

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 02:46:44AM -0700, Eric Shattow wrote:
> Requirements are 7zip (newer than 4.40) and mkisofs.  The idea is to
> make a driver floppy disk image to get Windows XP install going, and
> then also an ISO that auto-runs spice-guest-tools once system install
> is complete.   Cheers,   Eric Shattow from Tahoe City CA.
> 
> # HOWTO construct spice-guest-tools-0.59-win.{vfd,iso}
> #
> # Problem(s) solved:
> # * Windows XP install needs floppy drive to load virtio
> # * virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd is obsolete
> # * virtio-win-1.6.3-3.el6.noarch.rpm not freely available
> #
> 
> wget http://spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-0.59-src/virtio-win-0.1-59-sources.zip
> wget http://spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-0.59.exe

I see you are extracting the virtio drivers from the spice-guest-tools
installer, another option would be to get them from
https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/virtio-win-0.1-59.iso
which is the canonical location for these drivers.
If the ISO is inserted in one of the guest's CDROM readers, will
autorun.inf fires automatically as soon as Windows first boots?

Christophe
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