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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> bart.vanassche@gmail.com
[mailto:bart.vanassche@gmail.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Bart Van
Assche<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 06, 2010 3:37 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Smith,
Stan<BR><B>Cc:</B> Chris Worley; ofw@lists.openfabrics.org;
scst-devel<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Scst-devel] [ofw] [ANNOUNCE] winOFED 2.3 RC3
available for download<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Smith, Stan <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:stan.smith@intel.com">stan.smith@intel.com</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex"
class=gmail_quote>[ discussing the Windows SRP initiator ]<BR><BR>Since there
are no active SRP maintainers, SRP status is questionable at this
juncture.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Does that mean that Windows users who want a supported InfiniBand storage
initiator driver have no other option than running Windows inside a virtual
machine ?<BR><BR>Bart.<BR><SPAN class=276114915-06102010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=276114915-06102010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>Hello,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=276114915-06102010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>
I'm not sure I understand your question in that how does running Windows inside
a virtual machine get you a supported SRP initiator?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=276114915-06102010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=276114915-06102010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>To
date, the Windows SRP initiator works for some definition of works; Chris and I
have both had success running winOFED 2.3 RC3 SRP drivers such that we are both
able to find and utilize SRP target disks.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=276114915-06102010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>That
said, there are rough edges that could/should be polished if Windows SRP had an
active maintainer(s).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=276114915-06102010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=276114915-06102010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>stan.</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>