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? 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, > -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards Sven Kieske Systemadministrator Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG Königsberger Straße 6 32339 Espelkamp T: +49-5772-293-100 F: +49-5772-293-333 https://www.mittwald.de Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen