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

[Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@xxxxxxxx>]

Christian Horn schrieb:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:43:10PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> > > Is it possible to purchase them separately? Is there anyone at XenSource
> > > that we could petition to consider doing this?
> I think its not the effort that is missing, but $amount_of_money that has
> to go to Redmond for this.
I don't see a conflict here.
Just include it in price.

Besides, do you think that every company which wrote a Windows driver 
has to pay Microsoft for each person who uses that driver? It's hard for 
me to believe.

> > 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).
> > [...]
> > 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.
> AFAIK novell offers the drivers as payware, if its not too wired into
> the xen 3.0.4+patches they use for sles10sp1 maybe you can also stick with
> all your current xen-setup and just use the para-drivers additionally.
I think it only works with SLES.
Which honestly, we don't need - we can support ourselves just fine.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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