[RFC] non-KVM graphics/IO drivers in our default install media

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Wed Sep 3 11:51:41 UTC 2014



----- Original Message -----
> Hello everyone
> 
> I wanted to get some feedback as to whether it would be
> acceptable/desirable to add whatever available graphics and IO drivers
> available for the most common hypervisors out there other than
> KVM/Spice.
> 
> My idea is that it should be possible to run Fedora Workstation in any
> desktop virtualization solution out of the box as long as the drivers
> are acceptable for us in terms of licensing. So VirtualBox is the
> easiest shot, and a pretty popular one on Windows and Mac users as it's
> (mostly) FOSS and free of charge, but it'd be nice if we could add
> others like Parallels or VMWare (I am investigating the
> availability/licensing situation of those as we speak).
> 
> I would appreciate any feedback or concerns about this proposal.

Are they packaged in Fedora already?

They need to be in Fedora, and following the licensing guidelines before
we could add them to the Workstation builds.


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