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easier guest-utilities update #212

Open ghost opened 5 years ago

ghost commented 5 years ago

Hi, I've a bad experience about updating guest-utilities automatically. I need to remount the iso file and check if I need to update the package. Can you provide an auto-update or a more easy way when using Ansible or other config management tool ? Regards

stormi commented 5 years ago

Hi. Thanks for the enhancement request. Maybe one part of the solution could be based on Xen Orchestra that could be made capable of detecting when the version of the guest tools is older than what's currently available.

We are also trying to push the guest tools upstream into linux distributions. One of our contributers pushed the guest tools to Fedora Rawhide, for example, and we'll try to do the same to EPEL repositories.

olivierlambert commented 5 years ago

Clearly, the solution is to have the tools updated via the distribution package manager. But in general on Linux, tools are really a small piece of code (guest agent), keeping it up to date via the distro is the best solution.