On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 13:09 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > 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? > I see two issues: (1) Do we want to include software targeted for another OS and which cannot be built using our tools (e.g., Koji), as a package in Fedora? (2) Otherwise, do we want a Fedora package (virt-install/virt-manager) to go and automatically grab software (virtio ISO) which is not considered acceptable as a Fedora package? It seems to me that some of this discussion will overlap heavily with the mingw package discussion from July 2008 (start of thread here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-July/msg00004.html) At present, the mingw32-* packages are in Fedora, and they FTBFS (http://linux.dell.com/files/fedora/FixBuildRequires/). -Chris _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
