Re: Is anyone working on HVM Paravirt drivers for windows?

["Ky Srinivasan" <ksrinivasan@novell.com>]

I may be wrong here; but I think windows drivers cannot be open-sourced. I recall reading that in windows DDK documentation.

Regards,

K. Y

>>> On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at  8:25 AM, in message
<20061115132503.GK7490@edu.joroinen.fi>, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi>
wrote: 
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:16:41PM +0000, Alan wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:55:35 - 0600
>> "Walker, Bruce J (HP- Labs)" <bruce.walker@hp.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > One might reasonably expect something from Novell is this area, given the 
> recently announced relationship with Microsoft?
>> >  
>> 
>> 
>> If ZDnet is correct (always an "if") then the following rather limits any
>> value here
>> 
> 
> Also the fact that XenSource guys don't want to comment on this doesn't
> promise very good.. they seem to already have PV drivers for Windows, but I
> guess those won't be opensource or even freely available :(
> 
> --  Pasi
> 
>> ---
>> Microsoft is also making some other changes as far as virtualisation
>> goes. Although any Windows version can serve as the primary, or host,
>> operating system, only the Business and Ultimate versions of Vista can
>> run as guest operating systems in virtualisation. In Windows XP, each
>> virtual instance of the OS required a separate licence, but there were no
>> restrictions on which versions could act as guests.
>> 
>> ---
>> 
>> 
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Microsoft_limits_Vista_transfers/0,
> 130061733,339271684,00.htm?ref=search
>> 
> 
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