RE: MS Window virtio drivers certification status
-Original Message- From: kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Saul Tamari Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 4:50 PM To: kvm Subject: MS Window virtio drivers certification status Hi, I'm looking to find some information about the current status of the Windows virtio drivers. Are they certified by Microsoft? [YV] Drivers that were released with RHEL 5.4 are certified by MS for Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2008 and Window 2008 R2. Drivers that will be released with RHEL 5.5 will also include Windows 7 certification. Is there a timeline for this? [YV] We are also working to push certified drivers as part of Fedora 13. Will the drivers be included in future MS operating system DVD distribution? [YV] No timeline for this. We definitely would like this to happen, but the process is in its beginning. Some additional comments regarding MS certification (might be different from things accustomed in open source community): Driver certification is per specific binary and not for the code base. So there is specific binary version of the driver that got MS certification. Thanks, Saul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: MS Window virtio drivers certification status
Hi, Are you talking about both network block drivers? Thanks, Saul On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Yan Vugenfirer yvuge...@redhat.com wrote: -Original Message- From: kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Saul Tamari Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 4:50 PM To: kvm Subject: MS Window virtio drivers certification status Hi, I'm looking to find some information about the current status of the Windows virtio drivers. Are they certified by Microsoft? [YV] Drivers that were released with RHEL 5.4 are certified by MS for Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2008 and Window 2008 R2. Drivers that will be released with RHEL 5.5 will also include Windows 7 certification. Is there a timeline for this? [YV] We are also working to push certified drivers as part of Fedora 13. Will the drivers be included in future MS operating system DVD distribution? [YV] No timeline for this. We definitely would like this to happen, but the process is in its beginning. Some additional comments regarding MS certification (might be different from things accustomed in open source community): Driver certification is per specific binary and not for the code base. So there is specific binary version of the driver that got MS certification. Thanks, Saul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
RE: MS Window virtio drivers certification status
-Original Message- From: kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Saul Tamari Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 6:26 PM To: Yan Vugenfirer Cc: kvm Subject: Re: MS Window virtio drivers certification status Hi, Are you talking about both network block drivers? [YV] Yes. Only difference for block - Windows XP certified driver wasn't release with RHEL5.4. It should be in RHEL 5.5. Thanks, Saul On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Yan Vugenfirer yvuge...@redhat.com wrote: -Original Message- From: kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Saul Tamari Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 4:50 PM To: kvm Subject: MS Window virtio drivers certification status Hi, I'm looking to find some information about the current status of the Windows virtio drivers. Are they certified by Microsoft? [YV] Drivers that were released with RHEL 5.4 are certified by MS for Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2008 and Window 2008 R2. Drivers that will be released with RHEL 5.5 will also include Windows 7 certification. Is there a timeline for this? [YV] We are also working to push certified drivers as part of Fedora 13. Will the drivers be included in future MS operating system DVD distribution? [YV] No timeline for this. We definitely would like this to happen, but the process is in its beginning. Some additional comments regarding MS certification (might be different from things accustomed in open source community): Driver certification is per specific binary and not for the code base. So there is specific binary version of the driver that got MS certification. Thanks, Saul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: MS Window virtio drivers certification status
2010/1/11 Yan Vugenfirer yvuge...@redhat.com: -Original Message- From: kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Saul Tamari Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 6:26 PM To: Yan Vugenfirer Cc: kvm Subject: Re: MS Window virtio drivers certification status Hi, Are you talking about both network block drivers? [YV] Yes. Only difference for block - Windows XP certified driver wasn't release with RHEL5.4. It should be in RHEL 5.5. Will these block drivers for XP be optimized in terms of performance or will they, like the current ones, still be slower than the regular IDE emulated block devices? [1] [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/40762 Best Regards Kenni -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
