[virt-tools-list] [PATCH virtio-win-pkg-scripts v3 0/2] helpers to standardize driver directory layout

[Cole Robinson]

On 02/29/2016 09:16 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 01:51:25PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>> On 02/18/2016 12:51 PM, Roman Kagan wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 06:11:54PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>>>> On 02/08/2016 11:07 AM, Roman Kagan wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 12:35:21PM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
>>>>>>> For what it's worth, I've had success building (did not test) qemu-ga
>>>>>>> with mingw using the attached spec file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We build it in a similar way and use it in our testing for some time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you planning to split it out of virtio-win somehow?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think Christophe was experimenting with building qemu-ga for integration
>>>>> into spice-guest-tools.exe
>>>>
>>>> I must admit I didn't know about spice-guest-tools.exe.  AFAICS from
>>>> http://www.spice-space.org/download.html it's yet another means to bring
>>>> the stuff from virtio-win into the guest, is it?  If so how is it synced
>>>> with virtio-win?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes that's one of the things we have discussed getting on the .iso at some
>>> point, or doing nightly builds. Right now I think Christophe just builds it
>>> manually on occasion, I don't think it's automated. The build code is here:
>>>
>>> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~teuf/spice-nsis/
>>
>> Didi (cc'ed) has been doing some great work in automating this as they
>> wanted to use this (+ their ovirt agent) for oVirt guests.  Current
>> upstream repository is
>> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-nsis/
> 
> In ovirt we have this manually-synced at:
> 
> https://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-wgt.git;a=summary
> 
> See this if you want to work with this gerrit instance:
> 
> http://www.ovirt.org/develop/dev-process/working-with-gerrit/
> 
> "manually" means that we sometimes do reviews there, but only actually
> merge patches after they were merged in spice-nsis, with same commit
> hashes.
> 
>>
>> There now is a Makefile extracting the drivers we need from the
>> virtio-win ISO, which means going through a few steps we'd rather avoid:
>> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-nsis/tree/Makefile#n106
> 
> See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167941
> 
>>
>> Then we have a .spec file which can generate the installer from a
>> virtio-win rpm, vdagent rpm, qxl rpm.
>>
>> In other words, the whole build process of spice-nsis is now much more
>> saner and automatable/automated. Not having to extract the files
>> manually from virtio-win.iso would indeed be even better, and making
>> all these bits of pieces (mingw-vdagent, an installer, ..) available
>> from a single place would indeed be even better.
>>
>> Christophe
> 
> Thanks to Sandro's recent work, jenkins builds are fully automated
> now. E.g., we recently posted this to spice-devel:
> 
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2016-February/026436.html
> 
> We also pushed it to gerrit:
> 
> https://gerrit.ovirt.org/53326
> 
> At the bottom you can see links to jenkins builds inside the comments.
> 
> I do not think I am subscribed to virt-tools-list, sorry.
> 

Thanks for the info! (just responding so this shows up in virt-tools-list
archives for posterity)

- Cole