[Spice-devel] Bug in spice-guest-tools-0.74.exe installer

[ToddAndMargo]

On 10/10/2014 03:16 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 02:36:39PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>> Dear Spice Developers,
>>
>> I can't figure out where to report this bug on Red Hat's Bugzilla,
>> so if you will forgive me, I will report it here.
>
> Reporting here is good
>
>
>
>>
>> On Windows XP-Pro SP3, I just upgraded upgraded
>>      old: spice-guest-tools-0.52.exe
>>      new: spice-guest-tools-0.74.exe
>>
>> And promptly lost my clipboard between the host and other virtual
>> machines.
>>
>> I trouble shoot it down to vdagent having the wrong path
>> in the registry:
>>
>> Bad entries:
>>
>>        [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\vdservice]
>>        "ImagePath"="C:\Drivers\vdagent-win-x86\vdservice.exe"
>>
>>        [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\vdservice]
>>        "ImagePath"="C:\Drivers\vdagent-win-x86\vdservice.exe"
>>
>>
>> I corrected the issue by manually changing to the correct paths:
>>
>>        [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\vdservice]
>>        "ImagePath"="C:\Program Files\SPICE Guest Tools\32\vdservice.exe"
>>
>>        [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\vdservice]
>>        "ImagePath"="C:\Program Files\SPICE Guest Tools\32\vdservice.exe"
>>
>>
>> And restarting the service.
>>
>> So the bug is that the installer does not properly update the path
>> to vdservice.exe in the registry.
>
> I just tried installing 0.52, and the registry keys are correct. Maybe
> you have installed vdagent from another source in the past?
>
> Christophe
>


Hi Christophe,

I was years ago and I had hacked it in.

The bug is that 0.74 leaves the old values in place.

Go into your registry and make the path something weird,
then try reinstalling in 0.74.  It won't update the
path.

-T


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