From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yaniv Kaul Subject: Re: Any efforts going on concerning virtio Host Drivers for Windows? Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:33:51 +0300 Message-ID: <4A675B8F.2070407@redhat.com> References: <4A674BB6.6010907@campuspoint.de> <4A67593C.6020601@redhat.com> <200907221332.33954.iggy@theiggy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Wilken Haase , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Brian Jackson Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:57110 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752183AbZGVSeJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:34:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200907221332.33954.iggy@theiggy.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 >>> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>