Re: [Xen-users] Purchasing only the Windows PV drivers for Xen

[Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@xxxxxxxx>]

James Harper schrieb:
> Does anyone have any info on how I might acquire the PV drivers for
> Windows? Obviously Windows doesn't perform as well without them, but I
> don't want to be tied to the XenSource branded commercial releases...
>
> Is it possible to purchase them separately? Is there anyone at XenSource
> that we could petition to consider doing this?
+1.

We're running a custom Xen installation here, which is based on 
open-source 3.1 (and we used earlier versions of open source Xen, too).
We evaluated various commercial offering (from XenSource, Virtual Iron 
etc.), but it just doesn't match our needs (really customized iSCSI, 
really customized VLANs, really customized bonding, failover, 
monitoring, etc. - you just can't implement that in commercial offerings).
We don't need commercial Xen support; we're able to support ourselves 
just fine.
The problem is, we can't run Windows with open-source Xen, as it lacks 
paravirtual drivers, so performance is poor.
As a result, we're running Windows on VMware, which we don't like, really.


If someone offered Windows PV drivers for a reasonable amount of money 
per virtualized Windows machine, we'd be glad to throw VMware away, and 
use Xen for everything we virtualize.

--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

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