Hello,

I just wanted to post a nice workaround I came up with in case it helps
anybody.

The reason I needed it is that in oVirt 4.4, it appears I am unable to
change the nic1 type when creating VMs (maybe that's a bug?) and I
necessarily end up with the default nic1 type which needs a virtio driver
in Windows which is obviously not present on a clean install. Also, since
there is no networking, it can't be downloaded. I did think of mounting a
USB stick via remote-viewer, but something is wonky there too - the USB
device selection menu item is grayed out, and no, it's not permissions.

So what i did was to create an .iso file with spice-guest-tools-latest.exe
in it and copy the resulting iso file to the ISO domain. Then, I was easily
able to attach the ISO to the Windows machine in question and install
spice-guest-tools, which made the network adapter work.

Quick snippet of how I created the .iso:
$ find test
test
test/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe

$ mkisofs -o spice-tools.iso test
I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 116
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 0
5124 extents written (10 MB)

Hope it helps somebody :).

Cheers!
iordan

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