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

[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, linux/windows compatible,
>> with logic to pull in required shared libs and windows/tcl/cmd.exe
>> support as needed) to generate executables from python scripts.
>>
>> - Each project exists as a free-form directory with source code, or
>> 32/64 bit pre-compiled binaries, windows-based installers, etc. To
>> add to an ISO a symlink to this directory would be added along with
>> a python installer script which accepts arch/distro as arguments.
>> install/update/uninstall logic handled completely by this install
>> script.
>>
>> - Top-level installer will iterate through guest additions projects
>> and execute installers in turn. (some basic dependency support or
>> explicit ordered may be needed).
> 
> I'm not sure all drivers have installers. sometimes it will need to install
> from inf I think. Should look at how the REHV-M iso does this.

Back in my old days, I wrote a tiny add-on for NSIS to install also
device drivers. Not sure if it still works, but it used to up to XP.
Someone create a wiki page with more information:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/InstDrv_plug-in

In general, I liked NSIS a lot.

Jan

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