[CentOS-virt] p2v conversion questions

Tue May 6 21:13:20 UTC 2014
me at tdiehl.org <me at tdiehl.org>

On Tue, 6 May 2014, Sven Kieske wrote:

> Quickly scanning some of the files I found some GPLed
> and some under a weird IBM license (which allows redistribution).
>
> I didn't find anything which does not permit redistribution.
> Maybe you can point me in the right direction?

I just looked at the license on the rpm. It is located at
/usr/share/doc/virtio-win-1.6.8/virtio-win_license.txt

I did not look at the individual licenses.

Regards,

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>
> CC'ing Itamar who can maybe give some insight into virtio-win
> licenses.
>
> Am 06.05.2014 14:56, schrieb me at tdiehl.org:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, 5 May 2014, Sven Kieske wrote:
>>
>>> Am 03.05.2014 22:32, schrieb SilverTip257:
>>>> Per the RH docs, a RHN subscription is necessary for the virtio-win package.
>>>
>>> well the ovirt-project[1]
>>> will provide this package "soon" (tm).
>>>
>>> meanwhile you could try the following:
>>> (this is a quote from the ovirt-users ML)
>>>
>>>> download the src rpm from
>>>> http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/RHOS/SRPMS/
>>>> build the rpm
>>>> rpmbuild --rebuild virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6.src.rpm
>>>> install the rpm
>>>> rpm -Uhv  ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6.noarch.rpm
>>>
>>> I didn't test it myself, so I don't know if it really works, but
>>> "it should" (ymmv).
>>
>> That is what I was looking for. I never thought to look there. Thank you.
>>
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.ovirt.org
>>>
>>> PS: ovirt is the upstream project of red hat enterprise virtualization
>>> it would be cool to see some integration work with the centos virt sig!
>>
>> I agree that would be nice but as I read the license, it cannot be
>> redistributed. Obviously, Red Hat can do as they wish, since it is already
>> on the ovirt site. I wonder if they will extend that to CentOS?
>>
>> OTOH, it is trivial to build the rpm, so I am not sure it is worth putting
>> lot of effort into it. The hard part was finding the src.rpm and that was only
>> hard because I was looking in the wrong place.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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