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

[Tony Hoyle <tmh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christian Horn wrote:
> - it would take an effort too big to develop the driver as open source
This is probably the biggie.. writing drivers in Windows is very hard (a 
common theme on the driver lists is someone coming on wanting a 'quick 
driver' to do something like encryption then slowly realizing that 
they're looking at a 2 year timescale for a releaseable product).
I've no idea whether a PV driver could take shortcuts with its 
development as it's not talking to real hardware, but anything less than 
6 months (full time) is probably unrealistic.  For that kind of work 
people are going to want to be paid.
> - or closed information would be needed, only available under NDA
> or smth.
Nope it's documented on the web.  The WDK contains example code for most 
stuff as well.
> - or parts would have to be included that had to be baught from
> microsoft.
It's in the WDK which is a standard part of MSDN, and every company 
working with windows programming has at least one copy of that somewhere.
Tony


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