[Spice-devel] guest agent windows binaries

[Marian Krcmarik]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lindsay Mathieson" <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com>
> To: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:48:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] guest agent windows binaries
> 
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:16:04 AM Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > http://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/vdagent/vdagent-win-0.7.2/mingw3
> > 2-spice-vdagent-0.7.2-1.fc19.noarch.rpm and
> > http://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/vdagent/vdagent-win-0.7.2/mingw6
> > 4-spice-vdagent-0.7.2-1.fc19.noarch.rpm contain the binaries:
> > 
> > $ rpm -qpl ./mingw64-spice-vdagent-0.7.2-1.fc19.noarch.rpm
> > /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/vdagent.exe
> > /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/vdservice.exe
> 
> Why pack windows binaries in a rpm that can't be unpacked on windows?
RPM is still a file archive :) All you would need is just good file archiver (for example open sourced 7-zip for Windows).
> Thanks, but I'll try replicating the binaries and service entries from a win
> 7
> installation.
> 
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >
> > > Also - could someone *please* clarify the current and future status of
> > > windows 8/2012 drivers and guest tools? its extremely confusing trying
> > > to track down this information.
> > 
> > No QXL driver, the virtio-win drivers (located at
> > https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/ ) seem
> > to have win8 versions
> 
> Couldn't get them to install myself.
> 
> > , and the agent should be working as well on win8.
> > I've never tried these though.
> 
> I believe I have been labouring under the misapprehension that the qxl driver
> was necessary for the vdagent and all its goodies (display resizing, hot keys
> etc) to work, but that is not the case?
> 
> It will need the virtio driver though won't it?
> 
> I'll rebundle vdagent for win8/2012 and see how it goes.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --
> Lindsay
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