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using virtio-win-guest-tools.exe uninstall drivers, why vioscsi and viostor are not uninstalled? #39

Closed ChendongSun closed 1 year ago

ChendongSun commented 1 year ago

using virtio-win-guest-tools.exe uninstall drivers, why vioscsi and viostor are not uninstalled? and dirver.sys is still in C:/Windows/system32/drivers

vrozenfe commented 1 year ago

@ChendongSun Not sure what dirver.sys is, but both vioscsi and viostar are explicitly marked as permanent https://github.com/virtio-win/virtio-win-guest-tools-installer/blob/master/virtio-win-drivers-installer/Drivers/vioscsi/vioscsi.wxi#L8 https://github.com/virtio-win/virtio-win-guest-tools-installer/blob/master/virtio-win-drivers-installer/Drivers/viostor/viostor.wxi#L8

It was done purposely to prevent situation when VM becomes unbootable or loses a virtio volume during the next boot after uninstalling virtio storage driver.

Best, Vadim.