Paul W. Frields said the following on 01/14/2010 10:09 AM Pacific Time: > 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? > Is it one of our existing written policies that we only provide content built by Koji? I'm curious if anyone knows if/where we state that. John _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
