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Bug 691496 - Allow guest driver updates
Allow guest driver updates
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-boxes
Classification: Applications
Component: installer
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks: 696727
 
 
Reported: 2013-01-10 20:07 UTC by Alexander Larsson
Modified: 2016-03-31 13:56 UTC
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Description Alexander Larsson 2013-01-10 20:07:18 UTC 
It would be nice if we recorded in the vm metadata for each box what drivers we installed and what version during the express install. Then we could offer to update the driver if libosinfo contains a newer version of the driver than what is installed in the VM.
Comment 1 Zeeshan Ali 2013-01-11 14:03:03 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> It would be nice if we recorded in the vm metadata for each box what drivers we
> installed and what version during the express install. Then we could offer to
> update the driver if libosinfo contains a newer version of the driver than what
> is installed in the VM.

And how do we install drivers from outside the guest after installation?
Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2013-01-21 08:23:59 UTC 
Obviously that has to be determined, but i was hoping that could be done by booting with some kind of driver disk and somehow triggering windows to look for hw driver updates on it. or using auto-launch or something.
Comment 3 Zeeshan Ali 2014-10-15 23:34:56 UTC 
Not going to happen unless someone contributes patches for this.