Re: [Xen-users] Windows GPLPV Drivers - Development stopped?

["Nick Couchman" <Nick.Couchman@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's a bit of a misstatement, Fajar (sorry, James :-) - Sun is not endorsing the drivers - a member of the Solaris Kernel Development group endorsed it in a post on one of the OpenSolaris forums.  Hard to say whether or not that person is actually a Sun employee, and even if he is, I'm guessing you could find some fine print somewhere that would make disclaimers about the 'views expressed in this forum do not represent Sun Microsystems, etc.'

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking the GPL PV drivers - I use them quite extensively myself - just saying that the referenced post does not amount to an endorsement by Sun.

 

-Nick

>>> "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx> 2009/03/12 20:37 >>>
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:01 AM, James Harper
<james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I was just wondering if development of these has stopped?

>
> Still developing. Just a little slowly at the moment. I had to do a bit
> of a rewrite of part of the drivers to support a few extra features
> which has taken longer than expected. There was a bug that was causing
> total filesystem destruction under XP, and a few people have reported
> problems under 64 bit, so I'm not comfortable releasing binaries at this
> point.


If it helps to add your motivation, Sun is actually endorsing your
driver over their own :D
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=354100&tstart=0

Regards,

Fajar

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