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 21:23:56 +0300 Message-ID: <4A67593C.6020601@redhat.com> References: <4A674BB6.6010907@campuspoint.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Wilken Haase Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:60056 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752997AbZGVSYH (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:24:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A674BB6.6010907@campuspoint.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > > -- > 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