Re: [Qemu-devel] [fedora-virt] balloon drivers missing in virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Justin M. Forbes" <address@hidden>
> To: "Andrew Cathrow" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, "Onkar N Mahajan" <address@hidden>, address@hidden, 
> address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2011 9:35:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [fedora-virt] balloon drivers missing in    
> virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd
> 
> On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 02:33 -0400, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Onkar N Mahajan" <address@hidden>
> > > To: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:03:26 AM
> > > Subject: balloon drivers missing in virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd
> > > 
> > > virtio_balloon drivers are missing in the virtio-win floppy disk
> > > image
> > > found at
> > > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/
> > > whereas they are present in the ISO image , any specific reason
> > > for
> > > this ? Shouldn't they be ideally present ?
> 
> 
> The vfd is not supposed to contain the full set of drivers, it is
> meant
> to be the bare minimum drivers required to install (and fit in
> 1.44mb).
> The vfd only contains network and block drivers so that you can
> install
> the system and grab the full set of drivers from the ISO or another
> location.  Later versions of Windows can install using the ISO for
> drivers and do not need the vfd at all.

Makes sense,

thanks
Aic


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> Justin
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