[Spice-devel] W8.0 video drivers

[David Jaša]

On Út, 2014-09-16 at 20:46 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> On 09/15/2014 11:51 PM, David Jaša wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > there is no QXL driver for Windows 8 available yet. The QXL driver is
> > built on top of XPDM API that is not available in Windows 8 anymore. The
> > new QXL driver based on more recent WDDM API is not available yet
> > unfortunately so you're stuck with vga driver on Windows 8 guests.
> >
> > David
> >
> > On Po, 2014-09-15 at 14:14 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> Is there a way to get the guest additions (spice-guest-tools-0.74.exe)
> >> to work with the original Windows 8.0 (no service packs, just
> >> Frankenstein himself off the OEM CD).  I am trying to get the
> >> video driver to install and it keeps telling me I have the wrong
> >> version of Windows.
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> >> -T
> 
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Do you know if we will have video drivers for Son-of-Frankenstein
> (Windows 9)?

no but qxl device should work there in vga mode just fine IMO.

David

> 
> -T
> 
>