Enhancement Recommendation

[Aeroengineer1]

First off, thank you for making this tool available. It has made setting up a graphics card in a VM very easy.

I would like to make a small enhancement recommendation. In the section titled GPU, it would be nice to see the current driver version of the host machine and the driver version in the VM. If the driver versions were not in sync, then have that highlight red with a button that allows you to press it to update the driver. Alternatively, you could have all this shown in the GPU settings page and then only on the GPU home show a red flag that would pop up when the GPU drivers were out of sync. When pressed, it would take you to the GPU settings page, show you the specific miss match, and then give you the specific option to update the driver in the VM.

When the update button would be pressed, it would show the screen that is currently shown during the GPU driver installation steps. Upon completion, it would show the driver versions and that they are the same.

[yhcedpn]

Sounds great! Is it easy to detect the driver version of lots of GPUs?

[Aeroengineer1]

Doing a quick look, it seems that there are a few command line methods to do this, or this article implies that there are some C++ methods that can be used to find the driver version.

https://asawicki.info/news_1773_how_to_programmatically_check_graphics_driver_version

From a bit of research, it seems that this command line prompt will do that for Windows:

wmic path win32_videocontroller get name, driverversion

The challenge is that it can return multiple graphics adaptors, but that could be parsed out.

[Justsenger]

I have considered this issue, but a simple method for checking the driver version inside the virtual machine is somewhat difficult to implement.

[Aeroengineer1]

I have considered this issue, but a simple method for checking the driver version inside the virtual machine is somewhat difficult to implement.

Perhaps as a intermediate step, you could just add a button that would allow for "Updating" the VM driver without removing and re-adding the graphics card. This would rely on the user to check that it is needed, but save a step in the process.

[hiSandog]

Would the proposed update action copy the host driver package into the VM, or only flag that the versions differ and link to installation guidance? Version equality alone may not always indicate compatibility, since host and guest can intentionally use different packaging or vendor branches. Showing the detected adapter identity and both driver dates alongside the versions could make the warning more actionable and reduce false positives.

[Justsenger]

Already added in 7106c0d