Oops! Sorry guys - this was my fault. I had read somewhere (I thought it was on this list) that there was compilable source for paravirt drivers in there, but hadn't actually checked it out before I mentioned it to Jack. I said that I hadn't had a chance to check them out, but I wasn't real clear in my email (was typing on a cell phone, so I wasn't real wordy.) My bad.
--Jim >Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:20:32 +0100 >From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Xen Windows paravirtualized drivers in >Fedora 7? >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:08:11AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> It was my understanding that windows drivers in paravairtualization is >> not possible because of the windows kernel, not because of lack of >> drivers. For it to work properly the kernel would need altered which is >> against the EULA of Microsoft. At least that was my understanding. > >That is partially true. If you want to use the DDK, then it is not possible >to make your drivers GPL, but you could choose other open source licenses >I believe. You would end up with a situation where the source was technically >one license, but the binary became a different license. eg BSD source, but >Combined BSD / Microsoft DDK for the binary. In theory you don't have to >use the DDK, but not doing so would involve huge amounts of extra programming >work. It all rather sucks, but that's Windows for you. IANAL btw :-) > >Dan. >
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