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Microsoft contributes Hyper-V drivers to the kernel

Microsoft contributes Hyper-V drivers to the kernel

Posted Jul 21, 2009 10:42 UTC (Tue) by skitching (subscriber, #36856)
In reply to: Microsoft contributes Hyper-V drivers to the kernel by skitching
Parent article: Microsoft contributes Hyper-V drivers to the kernel

A correction to my comment..

I've read a little bit more, and it now appears that the drivers themselves are actually from the "Microsoft Linux Integration Components" (LIC) project. It's not clear from the articles whether vyatta ships these components, or whether a user was trying to add them into a vyatta install.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=...

It seems that it is the Microsoft LIC product that incorrectly combined GPL and proprietory source.

The articles hint that RedHat and SuSE have been including the LIC drivers for some time. Anyone know if this is correct? I personally doubt it..

See:
http://linux-network-plumber.blogspot.com/2009/07/congrat...


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