Re: Xen Windows paravirtualized drivers in Fedora 7

[Jim Klein <jklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops! Sorry guys - this was my fault. I had read somewhere (I thought it was on this list) that there was compilable source for paravirt drivers in there, but hadn't actually checked it out before I mentioned it to Jack. I said that I hadn't had a chance to check them out, but I wasn't real clear in my email (was typing on a cell phone, so I wasn't real wordy.) My bad.

--Jim

>Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:20:32 +0100
>From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re:  Xen Windows paravirtualized drivers in
>Fedora 7?
>To: "achan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <achan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx
>Message-ID: <20070913132031.GC23525@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:08:11AM -0400, achan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> It was my understanding that windows drivers in paravairtualization is
>> not possible because of the windows kernel, not because of lack of
>> drivers.  For it to work properly the kernel would need altered which is
>> against the EULA of Microsoft.  At least that was my understanding.
>
>That is partially true. If you want to use the DDK, then it is not possible
>to make your drivers GPL, but you could choose other open source licenses
>I believe. You would end up with a situation where the source was technically
>one license, but the binary became a different license. eg BSD source, but
>Combined BSD / Microsoft DDK for the binary.  In theory you don't have to
>use the DDK, but not doing so would involve huge amounts of extra programming
>work. It all rather sucks, but that's Windows for you. IANAL btw :-)
>
>Dan.
>
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