Fedora xen - Sep 2007 - Re: Xen Windows paravirtualized drivers in Fedora 7

Oops! Sorry guys - this was my fault. I had read somewhere (I thought it was on
this list) that there was compilable source for paravirt drivers in there, but
hadn''t actually checked it out before I mentioned it to Jack. I said
that I hadn''t had a chance to check them out, but I wasn''t
real clear in my email (was typing on a cell phone, so I wasn''t real
wordy.) My bad.

--Jim 
>Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:20:32 +0100 
>From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> 
>Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Xen Windows paravirtualized drivers in 
>Fedora 7? 
>To: "achan@jonathan360.com" <achan@jonathan360.com> 
>Cc: fedora-xen@redhat.com 
>Message-ID: <20070913132031.GC23525@redhat.com> 
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>On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:08:11AM -0400, achan@jonathan360.com wrote: 
>> It was my understanding that windows drivers in paravairtualization is 
>> not possible because of the windows kernel, not because of lack of 
>> drivers. For it to work properly the kernel would need altered which is
>> against the EULA of Microsoft. At least that was my understanding. 
> 
>That is partially true. If you want to use the DDK, then it is not possible 
>to make your drivers GPL, but you could choose other open source licenses 
>I believe. You would end up with a situation where the source was
technically
>one license, but the binary became a different license. eg BSD source, but 
>Combined BSD / Microsoft DDK for the binary. In theory you don''t
have to
>use the DDK, but not doing so would involve huge amounts of extra
programming
>work. It all rather sucks, but that''s Windows for you. IANAL btw
:-)
> 
>Dan. 
>