Xen users - Mar 2009 - Windows GPLPV Drivers - Development stopped?

Hi Everyone,

I was just wondering if development of these has stopped? At a guess I
assume the release of Xen Server on the 25th will offer an alternative.


Rob

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My guess would be that the release of XenServer will not offer an
alternative.  XenServer has always had drivers available, and they have
always been proprietary, remember, they want you to use XenServer.  While I
can''t say so authoritatively, I am pretty sure development on the GPLPV
drivers will continue until or unless James Harper decides he doesn''t
want
to mess with them anymore and no one else is willing to take over.
	Dustin

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Subject: [Xen-users] Windows GPLPV Drivers - Development stopped?

Hi Everyone,

I was just wondering if development of these has stopped? At a guess I
assume the release of Xen Server on the 25th will offer an alternative.


Rob

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> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I was just wondering if development of these has stopped? At a guess I
> assume the release of Xen Server on the 25th will offer an
alternative.
> 
Still developing. Just a little slowly at the moment. I had to do a bit
of a rewrite of part of the drivers to support a few extra features
which has taken longer than expected. There was a bug that was causing
total filesystem destruction under XP, and a few people have reported
problems under 64 bit, so I''m not comfortable releasing binaries at
this
point.

James

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On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:01 AM, James Harper
<james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:
>> I was just wondering if development of these has stopped?
>
> Still developing. Just a little slowly at the moment. I had to do a bit
> of a rewrite of part of the drivers to support a few extra features
> which has taken longer than expected. There was a bug that was causing
> total filesystem destruction under XP, and a few people have reported
> problems under 64 bit, so I''m not comfortable releasing binaries
at this
> point.

If it helps to add your motivation, Sun is actually endorsing your
driver over their own :D
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=354100&tstart=0

Regards,

Fajar

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That''s a bit of a misstatement, Fajar (sorry, James :-) - Sun is not
endorsing the drivers - a member of the Solaris Kernel Development group
endorsed it in a post on one of the OpenSolaris forums.  Hard to say whether or
not that person is actually a Sun employee, and even if he is, I''m
guessing you could find some fine print somewhere that would make disclaimers
about the ''views expressed in this forum do not represent Sun
Microsystems, etc.''
 
Don''t get me wrong, I''m not knocking the GPL PV drivers - I
use them quite extensively myself - just saying that the referenced post does
not amount to an endorsement by Sun.
 
-Nick
>>> "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@fajar.net> 2009/03/12
20:37 >>>
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:01 AM, James Harper
<james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:
>> I was just wondering if development of these has stopped?
>
> Still developing. Just a little slowly at the moment. I had to do a bit
> of a rewrite of part of the drivers to support a few extra features
> which has taken longer than expected. There was a bug that was causing
> total filesystem destruction under XP, and a few people have reported
> problems under 64 bit, so I''m not comfortable releasing binaries
at this
> point.

If it helps to add your motivation, Sun is actually endorsing your
driver over their own :D
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=354100&tstart=0 

Regards,

Fajar




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