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Re: [win-pv-devel] SIGNED WINPV DRIVERS: Are Discussions still ongoing with the Linux Foundation?


  • To: win-pv-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • From: Éliás Tamás <et@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 16:02:23 +0200
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 19 May 2016 14:07:03 +0000
  • List-id: Developer list for the Windows PV Drivers subproject <win-pv-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

Hi.

> An alternative would be use the Citrix branded drivers from Windows Update. 
> You can get these by adding the Citrix PV device to your VM config. This can 
> be done by adding a line of this form to you xl.cfg:
> device_model_args=[ "-device", "xen-pvdevice,device-id=0xc000" ]
> (assuming you are using upstream QEMU)
> This should cause an emulated PCI device with vendor id 0x5853 and device id 
> 0xC000 to appear in your VM and Windows should then be able to fetch the 
> Citrix PV drivers from Windows Update.

If this is such easy (I did not even thaught about such a solution yet),
I cannot understand why we fight with this "signing" issue.

Isn't it possible for Citrix to sign these community drivers too?

Is this has any legal/performance/security issues (assuming citrix
drivers are nearly the same as the community ones)?

> 
>    Paul
> 
>>>
>>>   Paul
>>>
>>>> Thx.
>>>>
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Éliás Tamás
Thomas Elias

ETIT[nwpro] KFT, Ügyvezető-Hálózatbiztonsági specialista
ETIT[nwpro] Ltd, General Manager-Network security specialist

Tel. HU: +36/30-497-1626
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