From: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
To: James Watson <james.watson@btg.co.nz>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Update Virtio Drivers
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:03:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A6473D.7090109@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A53AFB.20809@btg.co.nz>
On 01/24/2016 03:58 PM, James Watson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Over the last few months there have been various windows updates available
> that cater for the virtio drivers required to run a virtualized windows guest
> on Linux host, such as the fedora (latest branch) and suse virtio drivers.
> This is been a hit and miss in terms of what works and in the case of the suse
> drivers it actually broke some guests.
>
> Does any company or person have a plan to submit and maintain tested virtio
> drivers through windows update program to avoid that randomness in submission
> that is currently happening?
>
I don't think the suse or RH drivers were ever meant to be distributed with
microsoft update, so I suspect this was a mistake or change on the Microsoft
side. I believe other RH people are following up with Microsoft to figure out
what happened.
- Cole
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2016-01-24 20:58 [Qemu-devel] Windows Update Virtio Drivers James Watson
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