Re: Any efforts going on concerning virtio Host Drivers for Windows?

[Yaniv Kaul <ykaul@redhat.com>]

On 7/22/2009 9:32 PM, Brian Jackson wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 July 2009 01:23:56 pm Yaniv Kaul wrote:
>    
>> On 7/22/2009 8:26 PM, Wilken Haase wrote:
>>      
>>> 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 ?
>>>        
>> Yes, efforts are under way to both certify them (get them signed via the
>> MS WHQL process) and optimize them. Soon is the best time estimation I
>> can give, perhaps very soon.
>> Y.
>>      
>
> What about open sourcing?
>    

That too, of course.

>
>    
>>      
>>> If anyone can shed some light in this i would be pleased to read your
>>> answers.
>>>
>>> Greetings !
>>> Wilken Haase
>>>        
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