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From: Markus Schuster <ml@markus.schuster.name>
Subject: Re: Re: [XCP] new version available
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:39:21 +0100
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On Tuesday 19 January 2010 20:36:06 Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 08:30:40PM +0100, Markus Schuster wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 January 2010 18:57:11 Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 07:54:08PM +0200, Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 03:36:16PM +0100, Markus Schuster wrote:
> > > > > Dave Scott wrote:
> > > > > > * PV drivers check for magic strings in xenstore removed
> > > > >
> > > > > Scott, one question: Can the Windows PV drivers be used with
> > > > > "normal" XEN or is some additional infrastructure from XCP
> > > > > necessary?
> > > >
> > > > Yes they can, with some patches to Xen:
> > > > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-11/msg00932=
=2Eh
> > > >tml
> > > > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-12/msg00593=
=2Eh
> > > >tml
> > >
> > > These patches are already in xen-3.4-testing.hg and in xen-unstable.h=
g,
> > > so they'll be in Xen 3.4.3 and 4.0.0 releases.
> >
> > That's cool! Is there some comparison with GPLPV drivers in case of
> > stability, speed, features and so on?
> > It looks a bit like future competition between the two driver packs?
>=20
> Well the major difference is that GPLPV drivers are opensource,
> and the Citrix Windows PV drivers provided in XCP are not.

Ah, I see - too bad Citrix couldn't open source them :)

Regards,
Markus