[Spice-devel] Windows Guest Tools 0.74

Fernando Lozano fernando at lozano.eti.br
Wed Feb 5 07:35:20 PST 2014


Hi Christophe,
>>>> The 0.65 release was 10th Oct last year and the last git commit on the
>>>> qxl driver was Sept 9th. Is there somewhere I can find out what has
>>>> changed in the new version?
>>> I think the only change is that It contains WHQL'd qxl driver for W2k8R2.
>> I tried yesterday and it did not installed the qxl driver on my VMs
>> running Windows Server 2008R2. It installed the spice-agent service,
>> but it fails to start, I presume because the qxl driver wasn't
>> installed.
>>
>> And I could not find the qxl drivers on the archive, at
>> "$_OUTDIR\win2k8r2\amd64\" or "$_OUTDIR\win2k8r2\x86\". It looks
>> like they are included only for Windows 7 and XP.
> Yup, I haven't updated the installer to take this into account, so this
> probably is not getting shipped/installed.

So How should get (and install) the binaries for the QXL driver for 
Win2k8r2? Just wait for an updated installer?


[]s, Fernando Lozano



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