[Spice-devel] [spice-gtk v4 12/13] cd-sharing: implementation of new USB widget

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Thu Sep 20 16:14:58 UTC 2018


On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:09:56PM +0300, Yuri Benditovich wrote:
> Use case: installing Windows 7/10 VM ( or Win 7 ) with virtio hard drive.
> Need to share 2 ISOs (this is what users do, this allows install all the
> drivers just
> after OS installation). The user needs to distinguish between them in boot
> screen.
> See attached bitmap of boot with 2 qemu ISO images, where
> the minimalistic gui causes the user question himself which one to select;
> if he selects wrong one, the boot fails.

Even if making this distinction was considered a must-have feature, I
really don't think hacking vendor/product strings would be the right way
of addressing it. Yes it's possible to do it, but this does not mean we
have to do it, and even less that this must be presented in the UI.

Christophe
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