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Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO
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Daniel P. Berrange |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:38:35 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:08:26PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Alon Levy <address@hidden> 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 would be the advantage for linux guests, with their package managers
> > already
> > handling this task? I see how it would make testing easier with various
> > linux
> > distributions, but for management I wonder if it won't be easier to use the
> > package management system to update the guests same as the hosts.
>
> If the guest tools come from the host QEMU we don't need complicated
> compatibility testing and fallbacks. Guest and host will be in sync
> and support the same features.
>
> I'm not sure how we can update guest tools when the QEMU on the host
> is updated though.
While an ISO is a good option for the initial deployment, since it can
be used to provide both the virtio drivers + agents together, once you
have the virtio stuff installed in the guest, it might be worth exposing
updated tools via a 9p filesystem mount. For Linux guest the 9p fs
exposed could include a YUM repo (or equiv) which the guest update tool
would automatically see and pull updates from, since 9pfs is "live"
unlike an ISO.
Regards,
Daniel
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- [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO, Michael Roth, 2011/06/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO, Alon Levy, 2011/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2011/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO, Avi Kivity, 2011/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO, Michael Roth, 2011/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO, Avi Kivity, 2011/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO, Michael Roth, 2011/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO, Anthony Liguori, 2011/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO, Avi Kivity, 2011/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO, Natalia Portillo, 2011/06/26
Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO, Jan Kiszka, 2011/06/23
Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO, Michael Roth, 2011/06/23