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balloon drivers missing in virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd

DISCUSSION Onkar N Mahajan 3 participants 4 messages Sep 29, 2011 – Oct 6, 2011 KVM

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From: "Onkar N Mahajan" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:03:26 AM
Subject: balloon drivers missing in virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd

virtio_balloon drivers are missing in the virtio-win floppy disk image
found at
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/
whereas they are present in the ISO image , any specific reason for this ? Shouldn't they be ideally present ?

You probably want to be asking this on the Fedora virt list rather than the kvm & qemu developer list.

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Regards,
Onkar

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Quoted 14 lines · Andrew Cathrow

----- Original Message -----

Quoted 11 lines

From: "Onkar N Mahajan" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:03:26 AM
Subject: balloon drivers missing in virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd

virtio_balloon drivers are missing in the virtio-win floppy disk image
found at
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/
whereas they are present in the ISO image , any specific reason for this ? Shouldn't they be ideally present ?

The vfd is not supposed to contain the full set of drivers, it is meant to be the bare minimum drivers required to install (and fit in 1.44mb). The vfd only contains network and block drivers so that you can install the system and grab the full set of drivers from the ISO or another location. Later versions of Windows can install using the ISO for drivers and do not need the vfd at all.

Justin

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From: "Justin M. Forbes" <[email protected]>
To: "Andrew Cathrow" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], "Onkar N Mahajan" <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2011 9:35:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [fedora-virt] balloon drivers missing in virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd

Quoted 15 lines · Andrew Cathrow

----- Original Message -----

Quoted 12 lines

From: "Onkar N Mahajan" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:03:26 AM
Subject: balloon drivers missing in virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd

virtio_balloon drivers are missing in the virtio-win floppy disk image
found at
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/
whereas they are present in the ISO image , any specific reason for
this ? Shouldn't they be ideally present ?

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The vfd is not supposed to contain the full set of drivers, it is meant
to be the bare minimum drivers required to install (and fit in 1.44mb).
The vfd only contains network and block drivers so that you can install
the system and grab the full set of drivers from the ISO or another location. Later versions of Windows can install using the ISO for drivers and do not need the vfd at all.

Makes sense,

thanks
Aic

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Justin