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

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: win-pv-devel [mailto:win-pv-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Éliás Tamás
> Sent: 19 May 2016 15:02
> To: win-pv-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [win-pv-devel] SIGNED WINPV DRIVERS: Are Discussions still
> ongoing with the Linux Foundation?
> 
> 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?
> 

I don't have the authority to decide that.

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

The EULA on the Citrix drivers does not require that the drivers be run on a VM 
running on XenServer and the source from which they were built is very close to 
upstream but not identical. 

  Paul

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> >> Éliás Tamás
> >> Thomas Elias
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> 
> Éliás Tamás
> Thomas Elias
> 
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