> On 4 Aug 2015, at 09:21, Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com> wrote: > >> New windows pv driversseems to be well alignedwith several >> improvements. >> I found many bugs at the beginning but thanks to Paul Durrant have been >> resolved quickly. >> Will be an official xen project build withsigned drivers out there? >> > > The Xen Project does not have the necessary agreements with Microsoft to > create logo signed drivers. Citrix, however, does and our aim is to create a > set of PV drivers based closely on the Xen Project source and that should > function on any Xen installation, not just XenServer (although, of course we > couldn't 'support' that use as such).
Paul, do you think it would be worthwhile to pursue getting agreements between the project / Linux Foundation and Microsoft? Microsoft is a member of various Linux Foundation open source projects and has been getting more friendly towards open source projects lately. So it is conceivable that this is doable. As far as I can tell, the following agreements would need to be signed * Windows Certification Program Testing Agreement * Windows Logo License Agreement Also not sure whether there would be any fees/subscriptions necessary (which may be a problem). Of course it is possible that there would be issues, which would prevent the project / LF from participating in Microsofts driver signing program. > Also, because XenServer's QA group subject the drivers to a lot of testing, > and because they are built from largely unmodified upstream Xen Project > source, I will aim to tag an upstream release candidate of each driver once > XenServer QA results are looking clean. I think that is a good start. Lars _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
