Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-20 Thread Blaster
On 12/19/2013 3:45 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote: On 12/19/2013 04:40 PM, Itamar Heim wrote: the main problems with delivering windows binaries are build machines, licensing of tools, etc. so there is no problem with you providing those builds if they don't happen to be available already. From

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-19 Thread Itamar Heim
On 12/18/2013 11:44 PM, Blaster wrote: From RHEL 6.5 release notes... Windows Guest Agent Fully Supported The Windows guest agent is now fully supported and delivered with its own installer in the Supplementary channel together with virtio-win drivers. [...]

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-19 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 03:37:20 AM Itamar Heim wrote: Windows Guest Agent Fully Supported The Windows guest agent is now fully supported and delivered with its own installer in the Supplementary channel together with virtio-win drivers. Is there somewhere I can download this windows

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-19 Thread Sander Grendelman
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Lindsay Mathieson lindsay.mathie...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 03:37:20 AM Itamar Heim wrote: Windows Guest Agent Fully Supported The Windows guest agent is now fully supported and delivered with its own installer in the Supplementary

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-19 Thread Antoni Segura Puimedon
- Original Message - From: Lindsay Mathieson lindsay.mathie...@gmail.com To: users@ovirt.org Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 12:07:50 PM Subject: Re: [Users] Agents for Windows On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:33:43 AM Sander Grendelman wrote: If you've got a red-hat subscription it's

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-19 Thread Vinzenz Feenstra
On 12/19/2013 12:17 PM, Antoni Segura Puimedon wrote: - Original Message - From: Lindsay Mathieson lindsay.mathie...@gmail.com To: users@ovirt.org Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 12:07:50 PM Subject: Re: [Users] Agents for Windows On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:33:43 AM Sander Grendelman

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-19 Thread Vinzenz Feenstra
On 12/19/2013 01:31 PM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote: On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:21:27 PM Vinzenz Feenstra wrote: Subject: Re: [Users] Agents for Windows On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:33:43 AM Sander Grendelman wrote: If you've got a red-hat subscription it's in the virtio-win package in the supplementary

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-19 Thread Blaster
On 12/19/2013 2:37 AM, Itamar Heim wrote: shouldn't be any issue using these (other than potential bugs of course) What is the name of the ISO? I tried installing the RHEV-toolsSetup_3.2_12.iso from RHEL 6.4 on ovirt 3.3.1 and it complained that I was not running RHEV so it refused to

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-19 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 03:22:22 PM Vinzenz Feenstra wrote: This are the virtio-drivers, the qemu guest agent makes VSS calls. We currently don't distribute any windows binaries. And all of that is open source. The qemu guest agent is in the qga folder of the qemu source tree. Thanks, that was

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-19 Thread Nicholas Kesick
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:48:43 -0500 From: ih...@redhat.com To: b...@doolittle.us.com; lindsay.mathie...@gmail.com; users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [Users] Agents for Windows On 12/19/2013 04:45 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote: On 12/19/2013 04:40 PM, Itamar Heim wrote: the main problems

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-19 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On 20 December 2013 07:48, Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/19/2013 04:45 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote: we'd need to build this on ovirt or fedora or any other publicly available infra (iirc, it can't be done via mingw, but i could be wrong). I'd be really happy if anyone can try and help

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-18 Thread Itamar Heim
On 12/10/2013 11:57 AM, Blaster wrote: This setting is a PER GUEST setting, not system wide. On guests you reboot frequently, don't set anything. On guests you need to change boot options frequently, change it to what you want. We have about 6000 guests on ESXi, have not had any issues

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-18 Thread Blaster
From RHEL 6.5 release notes... Windows Guest Agent Fully Supported The Windows guest agent is now fully supported and delivered with its own installer in the Supplementary channel together with virtio-win drivers. [...] Application-Aware|freeze|and|thaw|on Microsoft Windows with

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-18 Thread Blaster
On 12/18/2013 3:23 AM, Itamar Heim wrote: were RFEs opened for: - allowing to enable boot menu - orchestrating a disk reboot post a pxe boot via detection of reboot Is this something I can do? ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-18 Thread Itamar Heim
On 12/18/2013 11:46 PM, Blaster wrote: On 12/18/2013 3:23 AM, Itamar Heim wrote: were RFEs opened for: - allowing to enable boot menu - orchestrating a disk reboot post a pxe boot via detection of reboot Is this something I can do? yes, just open a bug and flag it with keyword

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-13 Thread Anders Hellquist
Just wanted to share my view. Have been working with vmware vsphere for a number of years and when dealing with a few hundreds of vm's, setting a boot delay on each is not a good way to handle this issue IMHO. Besides, this setting affects all sysadminsand might not be what everyone wishes. I

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-11 Thread Blaster
On 12/10/2013 4:54 AM, Itamar Heim wrote: btw, what happens if you boot from [disk, pxe] - if the disk doesn't have anything on it, its supposed to pass to 2nd boot device, then on restart it will be ok? Yes, that's the behavior on both ovirt and ESXi when creating a new VM. The problem is

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-11 Thread Blaster
This setting is a PER GUEST setting, not system wide. On guests you reboot frequently, don't set anything. On guests you need to change boot options frequently, change it to what you want. We have about 6000 guests on ESXi, have not had any issues working this way. On production VMs that

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-11 Thread Itamar Heim
On 12/10/2013 06:47 PM, Blaster wrote: On 12/10/2013 4:54 AM, Itamar Heim wrote: btw, what happens if you boot from [disk, pxe] - if the disk doesn't have anything on it, its supposed to pass to 2nd boot device, then on restart it will be ok? Yes, that's the behavior on both ovirt and ESXi

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-10 Thread Itamar Heim
On 12/10/2013 03:54 AM, Blaster wrote: On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Bob Doolittle b...@doolittle.us.com wrote: I'll disagree a tiny bit here. One *really annoying* quality of needing to use F2/F8/F12 during Windows bootup in a VM (including ESX/vSphere) is that sometimes it can be impossible

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-10 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Michal Skrivanek wrote: Seabios has boot menu support on F12. I don't recall if we specifically disable it, I think not I will try to hit an F12 next time I boot to see if I get a menu, I don’t recall seeing any text on the screen that it’s there. It

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-09 Thread Blaster
On Dec 6, 2013, at 5:25 AM, Vinzenz Feenstra vfeen...@redhat.com wrote: I understand that you're disappointed and we're trying to make our best to make the user experience better. You should be considering the age of the project and what we're actually already providing. Yes not everything

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-09 Thread Bob Doolittle
On 12/09/2013 09:42 AM, Blaster wrote: I forgot my number 5) BIOS needs to work like a standard PC BIOS (as does ESXi) in allowing you to press F8 to get a boot menu or F12 for network boot. I'll disagree a tiny bit here. One *really annoying* quality of needing to use F2/F8/F12 during

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-09 Thread Michal Skrivanek
On 09 Dec 2013, at 20:56, Itamar Heim ih...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/09/2013 04:42 PM, Blaster wrote: On Dec 6, 2013, at 5:25 AM, Vinzenz Feenstra vfeen...@redhat.com mailto:vfeen...@redhat.com wrote: I understand that you're disappointed and we're trying to make our best to make the

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-09 Thread Itamar Heim
On 12/09/2013 09:10 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote: On 12/09/2013 09:42 AM, Blaster wrote: I forgot my number 5) BIOS needs to work like a standard PC BIOS (as does ESXi) in allowing you to press F8 to get a boot menu or F12 for network boot. I'll disagree a tiny bit here. One *really annoying*

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-09 Thread Bob Doolittle
On 12/09/2013 02:48 PM, Itamar Heim wrote: On 12/09/2013 09:10 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote: On 12/09/2013 09:42 AM, Blaster wrote: I forgot my number 5) BIOS needs to work like a standard PC BIOS (as does ESXi) in allowing you to press F8 to get a boot menu or F12 for network boot. I'll

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-09 Thread Blaster
On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Bob Doolittle b...@doolittle.us.com wrote: I'll disagree a tiny bit here. One *really annoying* quality of needing to use F2/F8/F12 during Windows bootup in a VM (including ESX/vSphere) is that sometimes it can be impossible to be quick enough on the keyboard to

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-09 Thread Blaster
On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: Check out the new page by Nicholas Kesick [1] Cool, thanks Nicholas! After reading the description, now I really want to get ovirt agent for Windows built. Is there an index for all the documents on

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-09 Thread Michal Skrivanek
On Dec 10, 2013, at 04:01 , Blaster blas...@556nato.com wrote: On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: Check out the new page by Nicholas Kesick [1] Cool, thanks Nicholas! After reading the description, now I really want to get ovirt agent

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-09 Thread Michal Skrivanek
On Dec 10, 2013, at 08:43 , Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: On Dec 10, 2013, at 04:01 , Blaster blas...@556nato.com wrote: On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: Check out the new page by Nicholas Kesick [1] Cool,

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-08 Thread Vinzenz Feenstra
On 12/06/2013 09:14 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote: On 12/06/2013 06:25 AM, Vinzenz Feenstra wrote: On 12/06/2013 05:33 AM, Blaster wrote: I guess I'm confused as to how Red Hat can be making statements that Ovirt is a viable alternative to ESXi when many simple things that ESXi users take for

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-06 Thread Vinzenz Feenstra
On 12/06/2013 05:33 AM, Blaster wrote: On 12/3/2013 7:18 AM, Michal Skrivanek wrote: On Dec 3, 2013, at 10:55 , Vinzenz Feenstra vfeen...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/02/2013 09:15 PM, Blaster wrote: I've been able to find prebuilt virt-io drivers and spice agents for Windows. Are there any

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-06 Thread Bob Doolittle
On 12/06/2013 06:25 AM, Vinzenz Feenstra wrote: On 12/06/2013 05:33 AM, Blaster wrote: I guess I'm confused as to how Red Hat can be making statements that Ovirt is a viable alternative to ESXi when many simple things that ESXi users take for granted simply don't work or are non-existent

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-05 Thread Blaster
On 12/3/2013 7:18 AM, Michal Skrivanek wrote: On Dec 3, 2013, at 10:55 , Vinzenz Feenstra vfeen...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/02/2013 09:15 PM, Blaster wrote: I've been able to find prebuilt virt-io drivers and spice agents for Windows. Are there any repositories for prebuilt qemu-agent and

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-04 Thread Michal Skrivanek
Hi, might be a good idea to change the http://www.ovirt.org/Console_Client_Resources page and change this to all additional resources one typically needs, and have all the resources (or at least an information) in one place linked from ovirt landing page What do you think? Thanks, michal On

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-03 Thread Vinzenz Feenstra
On 12/02/2013 09:15 PM, Blaster wrote: I've been able to find prebuilt virt-io drivers and spice agents for Windows. Are there any repositories for prebuilt qemu-agent and ovirt agents for Windows? Unfortunately no. ___ Users mailing list

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-03 Thread Martijn Grendelman
Blaster schreef op 2-12-2013 21:15: I've been able to find prebuilt virt-io drivers and spice agents for Windows. It seems the Windows guest tools package from http://www.spice-space.org/download.html is not installable on Windows Server 2012 though :-( Martijn.

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-03 Thread Juan Pablo Lorier
Hi, I've got them from here: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers Regards, ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: [Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-03 Thread Michal Skrivanek
On Dec 3, 2013, at 10:55 , Vinzenz Feenstra vfeen...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/02/2013 09:15 PM, Blaster wrote: I've been able to find prebuilt virt-io drivers and spice agents for Windows. Are there any repositories for prebuilt qemu-agent and ovirt agents for Windows? Unfortunately no.

[Users] Agents for Windows

2013-12-02 Thread Blaster
I've been able to find prebuilt virt-io drivers and spice agents for Windows. Are there any repositories for prebuilt qemu-agent and ovirt agents for Windows? ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users