On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:18:26PM +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > The 21/11/11, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > We're always open to accepting new drivers - we have almost every > > major HV technology covered to some degreee now. There was a patch > > for vserver posted here: > > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-January/msg00097.html > > > > with some review of the code, but there were not any followup postings > > for it. So what's lacking is someone motivated todo the work to finish > > it off & update to latest libvirt coding standards for drivers. Volunteers > > are welcome to submit vserver support to libvir-list again.... > > I would have to second such a call until I realized the last Windows KVM > virtio drivers are not freely available anymore (v1.2.0 & v1.3.3 of the > drivers are distributed with a proprietary license instead of the GPLv2 > for the previous versions). Looks like Redhat is going to close > contributions in the virtualization world. There is in fact *not* an attempt by Red Hat to keep the Windows drivers closed-source, but there are a couple of factors which might have mistakenly given that impression. The KVM wiki link to the GIT repository was outdated. The master GIT repository now lives on GIT Hub: https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/kvm-guest-drivers-windows I have updated the wiki accordingly: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers For reasons I don't understand, the binary releases published to Fedora download page are (unfortunately) using a different version numbering scheme to the RHEL binaries. So while Fedora shows release 1.1.16, RHEL will show 1.4. They both ultimately come from source in the same GIT repo I mention above. The Fedora link is on the download page above Finally, although the source code is GPL, the binary signed & WHQL'd drivers provided for RHEL are not under the GPL. This is due to license restrictions of the MicroSoft WHQL certification process :-( This is one of the reasons why we can't distribute the drivers in Fedora YUM repos directly. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
