[libvirt-users] Re: libvirt and linux-vserver

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 The KVM wiki link to the GIT repository was outdated.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.