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

[Michael Paesold <mpaesold@gmx.at>]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:14:52PM +0100, Michael Paesold wrote:
>> Andrew D. Ball wrote:
>>> That would be sad, but is possible.  Just like I don't believe Linux
>>> drivers should be allowed to be non-GPL, not allowing drivers for
>>> Windows to be GPL makes sense, unless the kernel is organized with much
>>> more isolation as more of a microkernel.
>>>
>>> Anyone's more informed thoughts on this would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Peace.
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 07:46 -0700, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
>>>> I may be wrong here; but I think windows drivers cannot be open-sourced. 
>>>> I recall reading that in windows DDK documentation.
>> I don't believe the problem is with Windows drivers, but with the Windows 
>> Driver Development Kit. The DDK has a license incompatible with the GPL. I 
>> think writing a driver without the kit would still be possible, although 
>> difficult because it would require much more knowledge about the Windows 
>> kernel.
> 
> Just do a chinese wall, clean room implementation then. One person has the
> DDK and writes a spec for the driver. The second writes the actual driver
> based on the spec - never looking at the DDK directly. A little more work
> sure, but certainly doable.

Yes, of course. Just find two guys to do the work. ;-)

Best Regards
Michael Paesold