From: "Yan Vugenfirer" <yvugenfi@redhat.com>
To: "'Saul Tamari'" <stamari@gmail.com>
Cc: "'kvm'" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: MS Window virtio drivers certification status
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:43:28 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002101ca92dd$355d38d0$a017aa70$@com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41be791c1001110826s5bd2ecf8n23a57d9288895b97@mail.gmail.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org] On
> Behalf Of Saul Tamari
> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 6:26 PM
> To: Yan Vugenfirer
> Cc: kvm
> Subject: Re: MS Window virtio drivers certification status
>
> Hi,
>
> Are you talking about both network & block drivers?
[YV] Yes. Only difference for block - Windows XP certified driver wasn't
release with RHEL5.4. It should be in RHEL 5.5.
>
> Thanks,
> Saul
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Yan Vugenfirer <yvugenfi@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org]
> On
> >> Behalf Of Saul Tamari
> >> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 4:50 PM
> >> To: kvm
> >> Subject: MS Window virtio drivers certification status
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm looking to find some information about the current status of the
> >> Windows virtio drivers.
> >> Are they certified by Microsoft?
> > [YV] Drivers that were released with RHEL 5.4 are certified by MS for
> > Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2008 and Window 2008 R2. Drivers
> that
> > will be released with RHEL 5.5 will also include Windows 7
> certification.
> >> Is there a timeline for this?
> > [YV] We are also working to push certified drivers as part of Fedora
> 13.
> >> Will the drivers be included in future MS operating system DVD
> >> distribution?
> > [YV] No timeline for this. We definitely would like this to happen,
> but
> > the process is in its beginning.
> >
> > Some additional comments regarding MS certification (might be
> different
> > from things accustomed in open source community): Driver
> certification is
> > per specific binary and not for the code base. So there is specific
> binary
> > version of the driver that got MS certification.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Saul
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-11 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-11 14:49 MS Window virtio drivers certification status Saul Tamari
2010-01-11 15:49 ` Yan Vugenfirer
2010-01-11 16:26 ` Saul Tamari
2010-01-11 16:43 ` Yan Vugenfirer [this message]
2010-01-11 19:43 ` Kenni Lund
2010-01-11 20:15 ` Vadim Rozenfeld
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