[Spice-devel] Can the QXL drivers be install on Windows 8/8.1?

[Martin]

Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay.mathieson <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> As per the subject :)
> 
> I know the guest installer won't do it, but can they be installed
manually? or 
> are they just not compatible?
> 
> Its starting to become a problem for me at work - we use VM's for a lot of 
> development and testing  and its increasingly difficult to avoid using
windows 
> 8.
> 
> thanks,

Lindsay,
NONE of the currently (FEB 2014) available qxl drivers works for Windows 8 -
8.1 guests because these OS require a WDDM driver and someone has to develop
this driver. See also:
https://www.mail-archive.com/spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org/msg09014.html
http://www.spice-space.org/page/WDDM

Martin