Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

  On 09/05/2010 06:57 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 09/05/2010 10:10 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> As a baby step, is there any chance of publishing an automatic 
>>> nightly Windows (cross-)build as a .zip file on qemu.org? That might 
>>> give more users a chance of detecting runtime faults during the 
>>> development cycle.
>>
>>
>> That's doable and useful, yes.
>
> I doubt it's useful.
>
> We don't have a massive pool of developers sitting on their hands 
> waiting for something else to work on.  We don't have myriads of users 
> demanding better Windows support.  Search the list, there's almost no 
> one asking questions about Windows and considering that it's missing a 
> ton of features and constantly broken, that strongly suggests that no 
> one is actually using it.

Or maybe, real users don't use the git repository, so they aren't aware 
of the constant breakage.

> Windows support in QEMU is an academic exercise that's only of 
> interest to developers.

I'm perfectly fine with dropping it.  btw, there are other features in 
qemu that seem to be academic exercises - *-user for example.  What is 
it useful for?  Most open source stuff is multiplatform, and serious 
commercial work needs something faster than tcg.

I can understand cross-cpu system mode being very useful to embedded or 
kernel developers.  x-on-x is only useful with virtualization, otherwise 
the performance penalty is too great.

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