Re: [Xen-devel] Is anyone working on HVM Paravirt drivers for windows?

["Andrew D. Ball" <aball@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That would be sad, but is possible.  Just like I don't believe Linux
drivers should be allowed to be non-GPL, not allowing drivers for
Windows to be GPL makes sense, unless the kernel is organized with much
more isolation as more of a microkernel.

Anyone's more informed thoughts on this would be appreciated.

Peace.
Andrew

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 07:46 -0700, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
> I may be wrong here; but I think windows drivers cannot be open-sourced. I 
> recall reading that in windows DDK documentation.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> K. Y
> 
> >>> On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at  8:25 AM, in message
> <20061115132503.GK7490@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
> wrote: 
> > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:16:41PM +0000, Alan wrote:
> >> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:55:35 - 0600
> >> "Walker, Bruce J (HP- Labs)" <bruce.walker@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > One might reasonably expect something from Novell is this area, given 
> >> > the 
> > recently announced relationship with Microsoft?
> >> >  
> >> 
> >> 
> >> If ZDnet is correct (always an "if") then the following rather limits any
> >> value here
> >> 
> > 
> > Also the fact that XenSource guys don't want to comment on this doesn't
> > promise very good.. they seem to already have PV drivers for Windows, but I
> > guess those won't be opensource or even freely available :(
> > 
> > --  Pasi
> > 
> >> ---
> >> Microsoft is also making some other changes as far as virtualisation
> >> goes. Although any Windows version can serve as the primary, or host,
> >> operating system, only the Business and Ultimate versions of Vista can
> >> run as guest operating systems in virtualisation. In Windows XP, each
> >> virtual instance of the OS required a separate licence, but there were no
> >> restrictions on which versions could act as guests.
> >> 
> >> ---
> >> 
> >> 
> > http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Microsoft_limits_Vista_transfers/0,
> > 130061733,339271684,00.htm?ref=search
> >> 
> > 
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