Re: MS Window virtio drivers certification status

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Hi,

Are you talking about both network & block drivers?

Thanks,
Saul


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Yan Vugenfirer <yvugenfi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Saul Tamari
>> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 4:50 PM
>> To: kvm
>> Subject: MS Window virtio drivers certification status
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking to find some information about the current status of the
>> Windows virtio drivers.
>> Are they certified by Microsoft?
> [YV] Drivers that were released with RHEL 5.4 are certified by MS for
> Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2008 and Window 2008 R2. Drivers that
> will be released with RHEL 5.5 will also include Windows 7 certification.
>> Is there a timeline for this?
> [YV] We are also working to push certified drivers as part of Fedora 13.
>> Will the drivers be included in future MS operating system DVD
>> distribution?
> [YV] No timeline for this. We definitely would like this to happen, but
> the process is in its beginning.
>
> Some additional comments regarding MS certification (might be different
> from things accustomed in open source community): Driver certification is
> per specific binary and not for the code base. So there is specific binary
> version of the driver that got MS certification.
>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Saul
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