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"Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare)
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Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:00:17 +0000
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Correct the drivers are not in the Fedora virtio-win package. The versions included in the spice guest tools build are also out of date and unsigned.

- Chris

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From: [log in to unmask] [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Todd And Margo Chester [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 12:30 AM
To: Scientific Linux Users
Subject: Re: spice-guest-tools for widows 8?

>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Todd And Margo Chester
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 1:38 AM
>>> To: Scientific Linux Users
>>> Subject: spice-guest-tools for widows 8?
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> spice-guest-tools-0.52.exe does not support Windows 8.  Anyone know of a version that does?  No QXL driver is annoying.
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> -T
>>>
>>
>
>
> On 03/27/2013 07:18 AM, Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare) wrote:
>> This would be a question better suited to
> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> However as I have noted over time the spice guys do not seem to be
> very motivated to create and publish up to date windows drivers. They still have as of yet to publish properly signed QXL drivers for Windows 7.
>>
>> *HINT*
>> These drivers do exist as part of the virtio-win package however if
> you have an active RHEL subscription :-)
>> - Chris
>>
>
> Found something over at:
> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/virtio-win-0.1-52.iso
>
> Have yet to test it
>
> -T

Hmmmmm.  Not sure that iso contains the QXL drivers.  W8
sure doesn't think there are any video drivers in it.

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