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Subject: Re: KVM call agenda for Tuesday 3
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:10:15 +0100
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Am 03.01.2012 14:12, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Dor Laor <dlaor@redhat.com> wrote:
>> There is a legal issue w/ WHQL drivers but self sign is not a probably=
 and I
>> believe that's what we have today.
>=20
> For a user anything other than first-class native drivers is a red
> flag that this software may work poorly - on modern Windows that means
> properly signed drivers.
>=20
> Although signing might seem like a secondary issue I think it's what
> actually has stopped us from growing a community around the virtio
> Windows drivers.  There are very few people who can help because a
> development environment where you can only contribute patches but not
> build the code fully takes the fun away.
>=20
> Basically I'm asking: is there a way we can do the virtio Windows
> driver development more in public, in the community, so that we will
> grow stronger in KVM Windows guest support?

Well, that's why we're putting effort into AHCI emulation. It's almost
as fast for hard disks and has native driver support, avoiding the whole
WHQL issue and providing a much nicer user experience.

Andreas

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