How to automatically install guest drivers inside a Windows VM

[Cameron Showalter]

Hi Rich!

I haven't heard of virt-v2v before, so it took a bit to learn about it.
It's definitely the right direction! You still have to go into Window's
Device Manager, and update all the virtio devices after, but that's minor.

I still don't get the qemu-guest-agent through this, so virt-manager's
"Auto-resize VM with window" is still disabled. I can get it enabled by
going to https://www.spice-space.org/download.html#windows-binaries and
downloading "spice-guest-tools" to the VM. I'm guessing this isn't a part
of virtio-win then. Any idea how to best automate this step? I guess I can
have the exe pre downloaded on the host, then mount it in and run it.

virt-v2v's not changing some of the xml to use virtio (Networking from
"e1000e", and Storage from the sata drive), but it is adding a lot of
aliases. Is this expected?

Here's the command:
virt-v2v-in-place -ic qemu:///system -i libvirt Windows10-test --root single

I'm doing it in place since I don't want a new VM. I can take a snapshot
before (And probably need to save the xml too), and restore back to them if
that command fails.

Thanks!
Cameron

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 6:58 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
wrote:

> You probably want to have a look at virt-v2v which does this sort of
> thing for Windows & Linux VMs.
>
> Rich.
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