Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt and linux-vserver
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The KVM wiki link to the GIT repository was outdated.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
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