[Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU Guest Tools ISO Follow-up

2011-08-22 Thread Michael Roth
These patches apply on top of master (8-22), and can also be obtained from: git://repo.or.cz/qemu/mdroth.git guest-tools-iso-v1 This is a follow-up to the previous discussion regarding deployment QEMU/KVM guest dependencies via a distributable ISO: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/20

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO

2011-06-26 Thread Natalia Portillo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ok you're forgetting one thing: 90% of the devices we emulate are real physical ones. The drivers for those devices in non-opensource guests already exist, and most of the times prevent we distributing them (read the EULA). I think a "guest tools"

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO

2011-06-23 Thread Avi Kivity
On 06/23/2011 06:25 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Even building the tools would be very hard. In general if you build against libc version y, you cannot expect your code to work against libc version y-1, unless you take special measures. With other libraries the "special measures" may not even be po

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO

2011-06-23 Thread Michael Roth
On 06/23/2011 10:09 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 06/23/2011 05:54 PM, Michael Roth wrote: On 06/23/2011 07:00 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 06/23/2011 02:08 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Alon Levy wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:55:25PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote: >> G

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO

2011-06-23 Thread Michael Roth
On 06/23/2011 04:29 AM, Alon Levy wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:55:25PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote: Goal: Provide a mechanism, similar to vmware and virtualbox guest tools ISOs, that allows us to easily distribute guest tools (and potentially drivers) for linux and windows guests. What wou

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO

2011-06-23 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 06/23/2011 07:00 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 06/23/2011 02:08 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Alon Levy wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:55:25PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote: >> Goal: >> >> Provide a mechanism, similar to vmware and virtualbox guest tools >> ISOs, th

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO

2011-06-23 Thread Avi Kivity
On 06/23/2011 05:54 PM, Michael Roth wrote: On 06/23/2011 07:00 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 06/23/2011 02:08 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Alon Levy wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:55:25PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote: >> Goal: >> >> Provide a mechanism, similar to

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO

2011-06-23 Thread Michael Roth
On 06/23/2011 07:00 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 06/23/2011 02:08 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Alon Levy wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:55:25PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote: >> Goal: >> >> Provide a mechanism, similar to vmware and virtualbox guest tools >> ISOs, th

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO

2011-06-23 Thread Michael Roth
On 06/23/2011 06:38 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:08:26PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Alon Levy wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:55:25PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote: Goal: Provide a mechanism, similar to vmware and virtualbox gues

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO

2011-06-23 Thread Avi Kivity
On 06/23/2011 02:08 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Alon Levy wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:55:25PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote: >> Goal: >> >> Provide a mechanism, similar to vmware and virtualbox guest tools >> ISOs, that allows us to easily distribute gues

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO

2011-06-23 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:08:26PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Alon Levy wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:55:25PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote: > >> Goal: > >> > >> Provide a mechanism, similar to vmware and virtualbox guest tools > >> ISOs, that allows us t

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO

2011-06-23 Thread Jan Kiszka
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

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO

2011-06-23 Thread Ronen Hod
On 06/22/2011 09:55 PM, Michael Roth wrote: Goal: Provide a mechanism, similar to vmware and virtualbox guest tools ISOs, that allows us to easily distribute guest tools (and potentially drivers) for linux and windows guests. Advantages (rough list to start the discussion, feel free to add/

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO

2011-06-23 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Alon Levy wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:55:25PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote: >> Goal: >> >> Provide a mechanism, similar to vmware and virtualbox guest tools >> ISOs, that allows us to easily distribute guest tools (and >> potentially drivers) for linux and wi

Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO

2011-06-23 Thread Alon Levy
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:55:25PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote: > Goal: > > Provide a mechanism, similar to vmware and virtualbox guest tools > ISOs, that allows us to easily distribute guest tools (and > potentially drivers) for linux and windows guests. What would be the advantage for linux guest

[Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO

2011-06-22 Thread Michael Roth
Goal: Provide a mechanism, similar to vmware and virtualbox guest tools ISOs, that allows us to easily distribute guest tools (and potentially drivers) for linux and windows guests. Advantages (rough list to start the discussion, feel free to add/comment): - Simplify deployment of guest addi