[Spice-devel] spice-vdagent-win 0.8.0 release

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 10:53:38AM +0100, Thorsten Kohfeldt wrote:
> 
> Am 07.11.2016 um 10:21 schrieb Christophe Fergeau:
> > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 10:07:58AM +0100, Thorsten Kohfeldt wrote:
> > > 
> > > BTW,
> > > _all_ binaries' details state 'Version 0.5.1.0, copyright RH 2009'.
> > > Here it would make sense to auto update with the build number, right ?
> > 
> > Now only one build will be made, so no need for that ;)
> 
> Hmm ...
> Shouldn't the Version read 0.8.0.1, copyright RH 2016 ?
> Respectively, what ever you designate the VDA version in digit 0-3
> plus build number in 4th place ?

Ah, updated in that way. Yes. I thought you were saying they should be
different between different fedora builders.

> 
> 
> > > > I've disabled all the various builders now and only kept f25 x86-64. For
> > > > now, I would pick one of the f24 builds.
> > > 
> > > Bad luck,
> > > I tested Win10/x86 with the F23/x86 build and the rawhide/x86 build.
> > > 
> > > Screen resize / auto guest resolution adaption seems to work (depending
> > > on manual choice of F23 libvirt spice viewer menu settings) as well as
> > > copy/paste of text guest->host and host->guest.
> > > 
> > > NO improvement on mouse sluggishness though.
> > 
> > Why "bad luck" ? Seems to be working as expected, I did not expect mouse
> > slugginess improvements from these builds.
> 
> Bad luck I tested F23 and rawhide while you suggested F24.

Ah, this really is not important, I would not recommend rawhide in case
of potential breakage there, otherwise any versions should do (and if
not, there's a bug somewhere ;)

> 
> So, there's no more function other than screen resizing and copy/paste ?
> But it also provides the ability to handle the mouse cursor user-local
> (as far as I understand from the wddm driver related discussion) ?

I believe server-side/client-side mouse is what is currently broken in
the wddm driver and what is causing the slowness. So I would not focus
on this too much right now.

> 
> > > > > Or would we even get those released on the next Fedorapeople ISO (where
> > > > > I currently cannot find them) ?
> > > > 
> > > > Getting these on virtio-win ISO was discussed a bit, but never moved
> > > > forward.
> > > 
> > > I would really love to see that happen, i.e provision of the 4 binaries
> > > I mentioned above in my rpm2cpio -> zip request (here raw, not zipped).
> > > 
> > > That would allow to install Win drivers, Ballon Service and Spice VDAgent
> > > consistently from one source without having to use the sledge hammer
> > > Spice-Guest-Tools-1.xx.msi (or exe ?) from spice space.
> > > Spice VDAgent seems to be the one missing set of key binaries on that ISO.
> > 
> > Well, I'd push to have the spice-guest-tools installer on that ISO as
> > well ;) Though imo it would be best to move towards single-driver .msi
> > files, plus one installer installing all.
> 
> Eh, do single driver msi files support the Windows device manager driver
> update auto-search-the-disk-for-drivers funtion ? ;^)

Dunno, maybe, maybe not. Note that I did not say this should replace the
unpacked drivers, just that it would be better than the monolithic
spice-guest-tools installer we have now.

> 
> Anyway, the Ballon Service exe is already provided in a certain manner
> on that ISO - not auto installing, but ready to be used by admin scripts.
> Same should be true for Spice Service and VDAgent exes.

Yeah, "provided in a certain manner", if you ask me that's not a good
way at all as obscure manual steps are needed to have something which
works.

Christophe
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