Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: Qemu Guest Tools ISO

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Alon Levy <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:55:25PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote:
>> Goal:
>>
>> Provide a mechanism, similar to vmware and virtualbox guest tools
>> ISOs, that allows us to easily distribute guest tools (and
>> potentially drivers) for linux and windows guests.
>
> What would be the advantage for linux guests, with their package managers 
> already
> handling this task? I see how it would make testing easier with various linux
> distributions, but for management I wonder if it won't be easier to use the
> package management system to update the guests same as the hosts.

If the guest tools come from the host QEMU we don't need complicated
compatibility testing and fallbacks.  Guest and host will be in sync
and support the same features.

I'm not sure how we can update guest tools when the QEMU on the host
is updated though.

Stefan