Re: [Qemu-devel] Poor Qemu documentation for Windows host

["Alexey Eremenko" <al4321@gmail.com>]

> But unfortunately, it comes separately from Qemu package, inside
> "OpenVPN" software.
>
> So my recommendation is to:
> 1) "get" the TAP driver out of "OpenVPN" package, and
> 2) put it into Qemu setup, and
> 3) update user docs with that.
>
> I dunno if I will succeed in getting the driver out of OpenVPN, it
> really depends how far it integrates into Windows... especially if it
> integrates very deeply into registry this will be mission-impossible.

OK, I have succeeded in retrieving the driver from OpenVPN package,
because it didn't have registry entries at all.

Now, I have built a separate setup package, that can be used
independedly from OpenVPN.

Here is the "setup-virtual-ethernet-tap.exe":
http://download.yousendit.com/E73E60032A75C3DF

NOTE: This download location is temporarily and will expire soon, by
then I hope to move else, to normal HTTP server.

Next step, I can build an integrated Qemu setup package for Windows,
that has TAP-Win32 drivers in it. (that way I will follow the standard
rule of Windows to depend *just* on the OS itself)
But I will only do this setup, if you agree to list it on Qemu homesite.

As for docs, I should note that this driver requires Win NT 5.0 and up
(2000 and XP), so if users wanna run Qemu on Win98, they won't have
this functionality.