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? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2010-01-21#virtio-win_drivers These drivers can be hosted in Fedora space, by providing the binaries and source -- although Fedora Hosted is acceptable, the Board left the choice of location to the Infrastructure team. Mike McGrath and the team will be happy to work with you on that. -- 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
