From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wilken Haase Subject: Any efforts going on concerning virtio Host Drivers for Windows ? Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:26:14 +0200 Message-ID: <4A674BB6.6010907@campuspoint.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from beeker.campuspoint.de ([134.102.140.6]:55287 "EHLO beeker.campuspoint.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752652AbZGVRcl (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:32:41 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beeker.campuspoint.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E438170002 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:23:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from beeker.campuspoint.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (beeker.campuspoint.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id CRDKm9xxKlsp for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:23:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.194] (f048021235.adsl.alicedsl.de [78.48.21.235]) by beeker.campuspoint.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1CFB114000E for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:23:33 +0200 (CEST) Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi List, we are already using kvm successfully a while here for our internal Infrastructure. Up to now we're having good results with Linux Guests and are quite happy with kvm. Now it's time to replace some of our current Windows Infrastructure and I'm evaluating Windows 2k3 and 2k8 on KVM vhosts. While virtio does currently successfully boost our Linux Guests I only found network virtio drivers for Windows. These help quiet a bit speeding things but we're well behind our hopes currently. Blockdevice drivers seem to be missing at all. Since I found no evidence of anything evolving here: Are any efforts going on creating or optimizing such drivers ? Can anyone expect seeing something anytime soon ? If anyone can shed some light in this i would be pleased to read your answers. Greetings ! Wilken Haase