Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.0-rc1

[Anthony Liguori]

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