From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52293) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZi8T-00059e-1n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:31:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZi8R-0003v7-6k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:31:48 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]:39550) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZi8Q-0003ur-Ks for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:31:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4E032420.5000706@web.de> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:31:44 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4E023A9D.9010205@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20110623092954.GA2682@bow.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20110623092954.GA2682@bow.redhat.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig7FECF6B463FF8E79E9B02D5F" Sender: jan.kiszka@web.de Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Michael Roth , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org Developers" , bsarathy@redhat.com, Anthony Liguori , pmyers@redhat.com, agl@linux.vnet.ibm.com This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7FECF6B463FF8E79E9B02D5F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2011-06-23 11:29, Alon Levy wrote: >> Implementation: >> >> I hope to follow-up in fairly short order with a basic prototype of >> the tools/workflow to create/install a guest additions ISO. A rough >> overview of the approach I'm currently pursuing: >> >> - Use PyInstaller (built around pye2exe, linux/windows compatible, >> with logic to pull in required shared libs and windows/tcl/cmd.exe >> support as needed) to generate executables from python scripts. >> >> - Each project exists as a free-form directory with source code, or >> 32/64 bit pre-compiled binaries, windows-based installers, etc. To >> add to an ISO a symlink to this directory would be added along with >> a python installer script which accepts arch/distro as arguments. >> install/update/uninstall logic handled completely by this install >> script. >> >> - Top-level installer will iterate through guest additions projects >> and execute installers in turn. (some basic dependency support or >> explicit ordered may be needed). >=20 > I'm not sure all drivers have installers. sometimes it will need to ins= tall > from inf I think. Should look at how the REHV-M iso does this. Back in my old days, I wrote a tiny add-on for NSIS to install also device drivers. Not sure if it still works, but it used to up to XP. Someone create a wiki page with more information: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/InstDrv_plug-in In general, I liked NSIS a lot. Jan --------------enig7FECF6B463FF8E79E9B02D5F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk4DJCAACgkQitSsb3rl5xQEnwCg153dHUxqR8106hR/kRpC7hfU cR0AoI92//K29oSmYIb/VBJN5zvCYv8b =lLt4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7FECF6B463FF8E79E9B02D5F--