From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Markus Schuster <ml@markus.schuster.name>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [XCP] new version available
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:51:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100121175102.GA28424@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA716B1526C7C4DB0375C6DADBC4EA342A82FAB44@LONPMAILBOX01.citrite.net>
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:48:07PM +0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > > > 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?
> > >
> > > 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 :)
>
> They're freely distributable in binary form, but they link against various MSFT libraries which have licenses that restrict what can be done with the source. The binaries pass all the MSFT class-specific WHQL tests and are signed so you don't get annoying pop-ups when installing them.
They work fine on bare-bone Xen? I remember seeing in the past data
about having to add some extra keys in XenStore for this. Is that still
the case?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-21 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-18 18:13 [XCP] new version available Dave Scott
2010-01-18 18:19 ` Dave Scott
2010-01-18 18:24 ` Thiago Camargo Martins Cordeiro
[not found] ` <81A73678E76EA642801C8F2E4823AD2143B8C194C1-aFusIB7tbcLeU4JHVX8hdHnr0TU713UqXqFh9Ls21Oc@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-18 20:03 ` [Xen-devel] " Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-01-19 13:43 ` [Xen-API] " Marco Sinhoreli
2010-01-19 13:53 ` Ian Campbell
2010-01-19 14:06 ` Rob Hoes
2010-01-19 14:36 ` Markus Schuster
2010-01-19 17:54 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-01-19 17:57 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-01-19 19:30 ` Markus Schuster
2010-01-19 19:36 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-01-19 19:39 ` Markus Schuster
2010-01-21 17:48 ` Ian Pratt
2010-01-21 17:51 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2010-01-21 18:03 ` Keir Fraser
2010-01-21 20:07 ` Keith Coleman
2010-01-21 21:06 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-01-21 21:52 ` Keith Coleman
2010-01-21 19:57 ` Tom Rotenberg
2010-01-25 23:29 ` Rose, Gregory V
[not found] ` <43F901BD926A4E43B106BF17856F07559CEF9E56-osO9UTpF0UQ8Ug9VwtkbtrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-26 10:56 ` Dave Scott
[not found] ` <81A73678E76EA642801C8F2E4823AD2143E92238F7-aFusIB7tbcLeU4JHVX8hdHnr0TU713UqXqFh9Ls21Oc@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-26 17:26 ` Rose, Gregory V
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