As you know almost all drivers are a part of the kernel itself. There isn't a way to "export" them in the way that you're thinking -- at least not that I'm aware. If you installed a package that included a 3rd party hardware driver, perhaps you can just download the rpm or deb file from its repo to back it up. Some kernel modules (or groups of kernel modules) are the drivers for some hardware, and you could potentially backup those files to load later. I haven't had hardware that has required special kernel modules that would create that situation.

To be honest, if that system crashes, reinstalling your Linux distribution will be your method of getting drivers for your hardware :).

@Dashrender said in lpadmin Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS:

@DustinB3403 said in lpadmin Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS:

Keeping a system out of date on purpose for this though. . . ugh kill me now.

Better get used to it - it's exactly what those shops running old XP machines on million dollar printing presses had to do.

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@lakshmana said in Centos 7.3 Wifi Issue:

@scottalanmiller said in Centos 7.3 Wifi Issue:

@lakshmana said in Centos 7.3 Wifi Issue:

@scottalanmiller Installed Ubuntu now

But OLD Ubuntu, that is expected to have lots of issues because it is not up to date, right?

Yes Now WiFi Detected will go with KVM and then Centos will run it

Great!

Not worth the effort for the case.

Thanks for the help guys.

True lesson in this story is do not work on a production system with changes that could take it out of service when time is critical. Better to say, "Next time you have a long meeting at the end of a Friday, let me take a look at your computer."

A common option for small environments would be to simply include the driver package on a Windows SMB file share in a centrally accessible, read only folder that can be seen from each VM. Then just log into each VM and double click to update! Easy Peasy.

For larger environments, Group Policy will be the most common approach.