Re: Any efforts going on concerning virtio Host Drivers for Windows?

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On Wednesday 22 July 2009 01:23:56 pm Yaniv Kaul wrote:
> On 7/22/2009 8:26 PM, Wilken Haase wrote:
> > Hi List,
> > we are already using kvm successfully a while here for our internal
> > Infrastructure. Up to now we're having good results with Linux Guests
> > and are quite happy with kvm.
> > Now it's time to replace some of our current Windows Infrastructure
> > and I'm evaluating Windows 2k3 and 2k8 on KVM vhosts. While virtio
> > does currently successfully boost our Linux Guests I only found
> > network virtio drivers for Windows. These help quiet a bit speeding
> > things but we're well behind our hopes currently. Blockdevice drivers
> > seem to be missing at all.
> >
> > Since I found no evidence of anything evolving here: Are any efforts
> > going on creating or optimizing such drivers ? Can anyone expect
> > seeing something anytime soon ?
>
> Yes, efforts are under way to both certify them (get them signed via the
> MS WHQL process) and optimize them. Soon is the best time estimation I
> can give, perhaps very soon.
> Y.


What about open sourcing?


>
> > If anyone can shed some light in this i would be pleased to read your
> > answers.
> >
> > Greetings !
> > Wilken Haase
>
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