[Spice-devel] What are these directories on virtio-win-0.1-81.iso?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 09/15/2014 12:44 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 01:52:26PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>> I just downloaded virtio-win-0.1-81.iso from
>>
>>      http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers
>>
>> Looking through the ISO, I find two directories: WLH and WNET.
>> What are they?
>
> WLH is short for Windows Longhorn which is was the codename for Windows
> Vista.
> WNET is for Windows.net which was Windows 2003
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_codenames
>
>> Also, I find a WXP and and XP directory.  Why two of them?
>
> The ISO layout is a bit messy, some drivers end up in WXP, others in XP,
> I don't think there's a very good reason for that.
> You can find some mapping table in
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~teuf/spice-nsis/tree/tools/virtio.py
> mapping these directories names to more usual Windows versions:
>
>      "winxp": {
>          "netkvm": Driver("XP/x86", "XP/amd64", "(netkvm.*|readme.doc)"),
>          "serial": Driver("Wxp/x86", "Wnet/amd64",
> "(vioser.*|wdfcoinstaller.*.dll)"),
>          "balloon": Driver("Wxp/x86", "Wnet/amd64",
> "(balloon.*|bln.*|wdfcoinstaller.*.dll)"),
>          "block": Driver("Wxp/x86", "Wnet/amd64", "viostor.*"),
>          "scsi": Driver("Wnet/x86", "Wnet/amd64", "vioscsi.*"),
>      },
>
> "winxp" is the 'readable' name, and then you have:
> { driver name: Driver(32 bit location, 64 bit location, file list) }
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Christophe
>


Hi Christophe,

    That explains it.  Thank you!

-T