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The KVM wiki link to the GIT repository was outdated.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