On Sep 26, 2011, at 00:47 , William Scott wrote:

> On 26 September 2011 04:21, Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> NB for optimum performance (and possibly: reliability) of your XP VM, you'll need the drivers from virtio-win - which is available from TUV, but closed source, with a proprietary license, and can only be used with an active subscription. If I were making a living from running Windows VMs on EL hosts, I'd probably bite the bullet.
> 
> What about http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/ ?
> 
> Will that iso do?

I don't know, but one would hope that the interfaces for guest drivers are being kept stable...

Anyway, thanks for the pointers, I wasn't aware of those sources for the software at all.

TUV may still have some additional IP in what they provide to subscription customers. Otherwise I wouldn't understand the restrictive license and no source being provided at all.

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