The 22/11/11, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:18:26PM +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > 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 The KVM wiki link to the GIT repository was outdated.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. Alright. I'm surprised you've found alone all of the factors that gave me this impression. Thank you for fixing and keeping the head up to this issue. -- Nicolas Sebrecht
