Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH 6/7] v2v: quiet virtio net and balloon devices wizards

On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 10:13:35AM +0200, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote: > The problem with running after the PnP is that user will be > prompted > for installation of virtio-net and virtio-balloon drivers... which > doesn't make sense as we are going to install them automatically > anyway. [...] > Some versions of windows (2008 IIRC) are explicitly waiting for > user > input in the PnP wizard: the best it not to show the PnP dialogs > for > the virtio devices to the user at all. I tend to agree that not prompting the user here provides better user experience; however I don't feel like this is a major issue. Regardless of the severity of the problem, the solution you propose - - disabling the prompts for specific device instance IDs -- is IMO way too unreliable and PnP manager will still want to interact in a number of common cases: - if the devices get enumerated differently and Windows assigns different instance IDs to them - if there's more than one device of any kind - if there are new devices beyond those you handle (e.g. virtio -serial)

I think this would be better addressed if you could disable PnP manager prompts globally during v2v, and reset it back in a firstboot script after your installer had been run.