Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> Now what is this "compiling" stuff ? 
> I always thought that the point of binaries tailored to a distribution were 
> to 
> avoid all the problems attendant to compliation..  

The problem here is that we supply a driver which goes into the Linux
kernel (as does every reasonably fast virtualisation sollution
currently).  The Linux kernel developers made a decision not to support
binary drivers.  Their intention is that every driver should be shipped
with the kernel, which our driver currently can't be (and perhaps never
will be) for a number of reasons.  The result is that every different
"build" of the kernel needs own driver "build"s.  We provide binaries
for the most common kernels with each distribution, but when a
distribution updates its kernel, the ones we supply will no longer work.

Regards,

Michael

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