[CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Thu Feb 4 23:32:31 UTC 2010


Ned Slider wrote:
> Yes, you can sign the drivers yourself, but the issue as I understand it 
> is that for the drivers to work with Windows (Vista, Server 2008, Win7 
> ??), they need to be signed by a cert that has a chain of trust to 
> Microsoft's root cert. Red Hat (and others) have such a cert and have 
> appropriately signed drivers for their customers. I /believe/ the 
> drivers are redistributable, but they are not signed.
>   

the selfsign procedure involves creating your own selfsigned cert, and 
registering it with the system, then it will accept drivers signed by 
that cert.   this process is intended for driver developers to be able 
to test their work in progress.





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