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virtio-drivers: Consider using virtio-win-gt-x64.msi? #15

Open kevinoid opened 2 years ago

kevinoid commented 2 years ago

Recently I realized that, despite the name, virtio-win-gt-x64.msi (and virtio-win-gt-x86.msi) are driver installers built from virtio-win-drivers-installer and do not install any guest tools/agents (unlike virtio-win-guest-tools.exe built from virtio-win-installers-bundler).

I was curious if you had considered using these installers, rather than extracting the drivers from the ISO and installing with pnputil. It might save you some work in future versions. As an added bonus, the installer creates a VirtIO-FS Service, which would solve #12.

Just a thought. I appreciate all your work maintaining this package in any form!

P.S. In case it's useful, I also realized the installers support ADDLOCAL to choose which drivers to install.