On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:01:25AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:30:45AM -0600, Justin M. Forbes wrote: > > The Windows drivers required to install using kvm virtio have not been > > included in previous Fedora releases. This is a serious omission, in > > that virtio makes a noticeable performance difference for the guest. > > While it is understood that packaging up an ISO of binary drivers for > > Windows which koji cannot build is not acceptable for the fedora > > repositories, we have a problem in that we need drivers which are known > > to work with a given Fedora release. A possible solution is to have > > virt-install or virt-manager download the ISO if it is not already > > present on the host. The ISO is only around 4MB, so this shouldn't be > > too big of an issue. > > > > In order to make this work, and know that we are getting drivers that > > should work with Fedora, we really need a place to host the "officially > > supported" virtio-win drivers for Fedora. The drivers themselves are > > open source, GPL license applies. The only blocker from the real > > repositories is the fact that koji cannot build them. We are asking the > > board for approval and possibly a hosting location for these drivers so > > that they can be supported in the Fedora space. Would this be a > > possibility? > > > <board_hat> > I'm not opposed, but such storage requests should be made to > Infrastructure. > </board_hat> > > <infrastructure_hat> > We have space available (mirrored or not). Please fill out a Request > for Resources ticket, including space needed (plan for multiple > releases and OS targets over time), duration, frequency of updates, > and any guesstimate on how many downloads are expected. The latter > will help decide if we need to put this on the mirrors, or not. > </infrastructure_hat> Can someone clarify the issue for the Board here? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
