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

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 05:33:28PM +0200, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote: > On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 17:19 +0300, Roman Kagan wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 01:47:32PM +0200, Cédric Bosdonnat wrote: > > > Setting the ConfigFlags to 0x40 for those will make windows quiet > > > at the first boot about those new devices. The wizard must not be > > > presented to the user since the needed drivers will automatically > > > be installed at firstboot... or worse, the wizard can even block > > > the installer. > > > > What installer? > > At least the VMDP installer running at firstboot is blocked by these > wizards. I see. Perhaps this needs to be fixed in that installer, then (no, I have no idea how or whether it's possible at all)? > > You're trying circumvent the usual PnP process people are used to. > > I'm > > not sure it's worth adding yet more unreliable hacks (yes, basically > > the > > whole v2v/windows_virtio.ml is a hack). > > Setting those keys forces windows to ignore the virtio net and balloon > devices for the first boot time. Running the VMDP installer (or the RH > equivalent one) will install the needed drivers and all will be fine > after that. I'll talk to our guys doing similar things. I wonder what they do -- they must have similar problems.