Hi.

While there is a qemu-guest-agent package, it would be nice if there was
something comparable to virtualbox-guest-additions-iso for non-Debian
and/or non-Linux platforms (especially Windows).

I'm not sure whether qemu itself already provides such a ISO based
solution,... there is http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/GuestAgent/ISO
but I have no idea about its status.

Would be nice though, if there was at least a container package,
which contiains built and probably statically linked versions of the
guest agents for other platforms (Windows, non-Debian distros).


Cheers,
Chris.

16.12.2013 02:00, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:

However, just a guest agent is far from sufficient: we need to have
at least virtio and spice drivers in there too.  Note that guest
agent requires virtio-serial driver to function, since it is the
way how it communicates with the host.

But qemu package does not contain either of these drivers, both are
separate projects which aren't really related to Debian or to linux
(these are windows device drivers).  So at least this can't be done
in qemu package, it needs to be a separate project similar to
Debian Installer - a large thing which pulls various small pieces
from various places to build a single installer. D-I has special
support for this within dpkg infrastructure.

Note also that I for one can't realistically support these windows
drivers in any way at all, just because I don't remember anything
about this part of windows (and even there, my knowlege is limited
to windows "for workgroups" 3.1).

So marking as wontfix for now.

Thanks,

/mjt