[Libosinfo] [PATCH 7/8] winxp, win7: Add virtio & QXL device drivers info

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 05:18:46AM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
> 
> Add an all-in-one virtio and QXL device driver setup binary to Windows
> XP and 7. This needs to be listed separately from virtio block driver as
> not all of these are pre-installable.
> 
> As bonus, the same binary also installs spice-vdagent for us.

I see this as an unfortunate side-effect, not as a bonus. I don't think
we have a way to express that this agent is nice to have when using
spice, and that it needs vioserial.

> 
> Unfortunately we wont be able to actually use this driver in Windows 7
> installer script as:
> 
> * 64-bit (the most commonly used version AFAIK) Windows 7 simply refuses
>   to install unsigned drivers.
> * I failed to find any way to tell windows 7 to ignore unsigned status
>   of the drivers.

I think we should still have a way for libosinfo user to have this binary
run at the end of the install process even though this means having to
click through a few dialogs. For what it's worth, I would have preferred
this series to first add support for post-install drivers while ignoring
driver signature, and then adding the signature stuff on top of it.

Christophe
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