<html><head><style type='text/css'>body { font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000}</style></head><body>Oops! Sorry guys - this was my fault. I had read somewhere (I thought it was on this list) that there was compilable source for paravirt drivers in there, but hadn't actually checked it out before I mentioned it to Jack. I said that I hadn't had a chance to check them out, but I wasn't real clear in my email (was typing on a cell phone, so I wasn't real wordy.) My bad.<br><br>--Jim<br><br>>Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:20:32 +0100<br>>From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com><br>>Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Xen Windows paravirtualized drivers in<br>>Fedora 7?<br>>To: "achan@jonathan360.com" <achan@jonathan360.com><br>>Cc: fedora-xen@redhat.com<br>>Message-ID: <20070913132031.GC23525@redhat.com><br>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br>><br>>On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:08:11AM -0400, achan@jonathan360.com wrote:<br>>> It was my understanding that windows drivers in paravairtualization is<br>>> not possible because of the windows kernel, not because of lack of<br>>> drivers. For it to work properly the kernel would need altered which is<br>>> against the EULA of Microsoft. At least that was my understanding.<br>><br>>That is partially true. If you want to use the DDK, then it is not possible<br>>to make your drivers GPL, but you could choose other open source licenses<br>>I believe. You would end up with a situation where the source was technically<br>>one license, but the binary became a different license. eg BSD source, but<br>>Combined BSD / Microsoft DDK for the binary. In theory you don't have to<br>>use the DDK, but not doing so would involve huge amounts of extra programming<br>>work. It all rather sucks, but that's Windows for you. IANAL btw :-)<br>><br>>Dan.<br>><br></body></html>