[Libguestfs] Virtio-win RPM?

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Nov 23 12:00:55 UTC 2011


On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 09:30:04AM +0000, Matthew Booth wrote:
> On 22/11/11 16:47, Greg Scott wrote:
> >>The missing files can't be distributed with Fedora.
> >
> >The obvious question - why not?
> >
> >-rw-r--r--. 1 root root     994 Feb 14  2011 firstboot.bat
> 
> This file should be included with virt-v2v in Fedora. It was omitted
> accidentally.
> 
> >-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4324584 Feb 14  2011 rhev-apt.exe
> 
> Unfortunately the license on this file doesn't permit us to
> distribute it with Fedora.
> 
> >-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   68928 Feb 14  2011 rhsrvany.exe
> 
> Rich: isn't this GPL? Could we include rhsrvany.exe in Fedora?

Yes, although I'm not sure what the latest state of the project is.

> If we could distribute rhsrvany.exe, we could make the migration
> work in the absence of rhev-apt.exe. I think this would be a good
> solution for Fedora.

rhev-apt should be open sourced too.  Not sure why it isn't ...

Rich.

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