[Spice-devel] Recommended place to get drivers

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Mon Jul 2 08:18:41 UTC 2018


On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 06:25:23PM -0500, Carlos González wrote:
> 2018-06-29 10:34 GMT-05:00 Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com>:
> 
> > The way things flow are individual driver releases/builds (eg the
> > qxl-wddm-dod build you found on spice-space.org), then they are gathered
> > in the virtio-win iso hosted on fedora infrastructure. From the drivers
> > on that virtio-win iso, the spice-guest-tools installer is generated, so
> > right after release, the virtio-win iso and the spice-guest-tools
> > installer will have the exact same driver versions/binaries. However,
> > the spice-guest-tools executable is not updated as often as the
> > virtio-win iso, so they get out of sync, hence the confusion that you
> > describe. The process is mostly automated today, so hopefully someday
> > they will be much more in sync ;)
> >
> > Christophe
> >
> 
> Thanks yet again sir.
> 
> So spice-guest-tools installer, which virtio-win ISO branch does it take
> the drivers from, "stable" or "latest" one?

To be honest, I forgot. The version of the spice-guest-tools installers
corresponds to the versioning of the virtio-win iso image which was
used.

Christophe
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