virtio-win drivers

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:30:45AM -0600, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> The Windows drivers required to install using kvm virtio have not been
> included in previous Fedora releases.  This is a serious omission, in
> that virtio makes a noticeable performance difference for the guest.
> While it is understood that packaging up an ISO of binary drivers for
> Windows which koji cannot build is not acceptable for the fedora
> repositories, we have a problem in that we need drivers which are known
> to work with a given Fedora release.  A possible solution is to have
> virt-install or virt-manager download the ISO if it is not already
> present on the host.  The ISO is only around 4MB, so this shouldn't be
> too big of an issue.
> 
> In order to make this work, and know that we are getting drivers that
> should work with Fedora, we really need a place to host the "officially
> supported" virtio-win drivers for Fedora.  The drivers themselves are
> open source, GPL license applies.  The only blocker from the real
> repositories is the fact that koji cannot build them.  We are asking the
> board for approval and possibly a hosting location for these drivers so
> that they can be supported in the Fedora space.  Would this be a
> possibility?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2010-01-21#virtio-win_drivers

These drivers can be hosted in Fedora space, by providing the binaries
and source -- although Fedora Hosted is acceptable, the Board left the
choice of location to the Infrastructure team.  Mike McGrath and the
team will be happy to work with you on that.

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