From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35819) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNrDG-0004PL-CF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNrDE-0001Kr-PL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:02 -0500 Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:44047) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNrDE-0001Kk-Mp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:00 -0500 Received: from /spool/local by e7.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:19:56 -0500 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay06.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id pA8JJivP3104910 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:19:44 -0500 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id pA8JJhOr008343 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:19:43 -0500 Message-ID: <4EB980CE.2070400@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:19:42 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4EB85480.1020205@us.ibm.com> <201111081142.14663.rickv@hobi.com> <4EB97A07.6010004@weilnetz.de> <201111081303.51899.rickv@hobi.com> In-Reply-To: <201111081303.51899.rickv@hobi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.0-rc1 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: rickv@hobi.com Cc: Stefan Weil , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 11/08/2011 01:03 PM, Rick Vernam wrote: > On Tuesday 08 November 2011 12:50:47 Stefan Weil wrote: >> Am 08.11.2011 18:42, schrieb Rick Vernam: >>> Are there supporting windows binaries (ie, various virtio drivers and >>> vdagent)? >>> >>> Also, I've seen instructions to build the various windows binaries from >>> source in a number of different places. Is there an "official" site >>> describing the method? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -Rick >> >> Hi Rick, >> >> there is a page on QEMU's wiki: http://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/W32. >> Please tell me if there is information missing there (or add it yourself >> to the wiki). >> >> If anybody has more information on supporting w32 binaries, >> this can be added to the wiki, too. >> >> Cheers, >> Stefan > > Sorry for the confussion. I run Qemu on a Linux host, with WXP as a guest. > I'd like to give 1.0 rc a run, but first I'd like to make sure I have the > correct windows virtio drivers, and correct windows vdagent. vdagent is for Spice. The Spice windows driver is not based on virtio and should be available from spice-space.org. Windows virtio drivers are available in binary form from Fedora Hosted. See http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/ Note that the Windows virtio driver binaries aren't signed. Regards, Anthony Liguori There is no > documentation that I can find that specifies what, where or how regarding those > windows guest components. > > Thanks, > -Rick >