From: Yaniv Kaul <ykaul@redhat.com>
To: Wilken Haase <wilken.haase@campuspoint.de>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Any efforts going on concerning virtio Host Drivers for Windows ?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:23:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A67593C.6020601@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A674BB6.6010907@campuspoint.de>
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.
>
> If anyone can shed some light in this i would be pleased to read your
> answers.
>
> Greetings !
> Wilken Haase
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-22 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-22 17:26 Any efforts going on concerning virtio Host Drivers for Windows ? Wilken Haase
2009-07-22 18:23 ` Yaniv Kaul [this message]
2009-07-22 18:32 ` Any efforts going on concerning virtio Host Drivers for Windows? Brian Jackson
2009-07-22 18:33 ` Yaniv Kaul
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