Hi all,
I thought those running Windows guests might be interested in this -
1) There are new Virtio drivers, and their location on Fedora's site have moved - you can now find them here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers
2) Both the Stable (0.1.96) and the Current (0.1.103) now contain QEmu-GA installers for both x86 and x64 and will install the appropriate libs needed for VSS in terms of backups.
This is really great news as it's now easy to get the guest agent rather than having to either compile it, or find it from some third party already compiled (and possibly only having one version available).
There is only one negative that exists with the Stable version (don't know if it's fixed in Current) - if you install QA-GA, uninstall it, and re-install it - you'll get an error when it comes to registering the dlls and it won't run right (found this out when I had a problem install from the stratus version actually installing the 64bit version on a 32bit system without it self checking (stratus only has a single download, and doesn't mention 32/64) - uninstalled that and tried to install the version from the current virtio driver cd from fedora. A clean install doesn't exhibit this issue.
I thought those running Windows guests might be interested in this -
1) There are new Virtio drivers, and their location on Fedora's site have moved - you can now find them here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers
2) Both the Stable (0.1.96) and the Current (0.1.103) now contain QEmu-GA installers for both x86 and x64 and will install the appropriate libs needed for VSS in terms of backups.
This is really great news as it's now easy to get the guest agent rather than having to either compile it, or find it from some third party already compiled (and possibly only having one version available).
There is only one negative that exists with the Stable version (don't know if it's fixed in Current) - if you install QA-GA, uninstall it, and re-install it - you'll get an error when it comes to registering the dlls and it won't run right (found this out when I had a problem install from the stratus version actually installing the 64bit version on a 32bit system without it self checking (stratus only has a single download, and doesn't mention 32/64) - uninstalled that and tried to install the version from the current virtio driver cd from fedora. A clean install doesn't exhibit this issue.