Any efforts going on concerning virtio Host Drivers for Windows ?

Any efforts going on concerning virtio Host Drivers for Windows ?

[Wilken Haase]

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 ?

If anyone can shed some light in this i would be pleased to read your 
answers.

Greetings !
Wilken Haase

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

[Yaniv Kaul]

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

[Brian Jackson]

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?


>
> > If anyone can shed some light in this i would be pleased to read your
> > answers.
> >
> > Greetings !
> > Wilken Haase
>
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Re: Any efforts going on concerning virtio Host Drivers for Windows?

[Yaniv Kaul]

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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