Re: Windows host support [was: Re: [Qemu-devel] CFP: 1st International QEMU Users Forum]

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 11/28/2010 04:56 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 28.11.2010, at 01:17, Nathan Froyd wrote:
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>> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 01:26:31AM +0100, François Revol wrote:
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>>>>> the people we are addressing and we would like to bring together is from the QEMU emulation community.
>>>>> We are interested in running different ISAs mainly under Linux and Windows versions. There is a huge additional
>>>>>            
>>>> You're about the first person in 1/2 year that actually said you
>>>> care about Windows hosts. Windows support for example is currently
>>>> on the verge of getting deprecated, because we're lacking a
>>>> maintainer.
>>>>          
>>> I suppose windows users are not as much used/interested/involved into
>>> free software development workflows, and probably don't bother even
>>> lurking on the developer mailing lists. They only shout when something
>>> breaks :p
>>>        
>> We (CodeSourcery) are very interested in Windows host support.  (We
>> distribute QEMU with our commerical development products for
>> ARM/PowerPC/MIPS/SH/ColdFire/x86.)  Unfortunately, we've mostly been
>> backporting patches lately and haven't done a full merge from upstream
>> in some time, so we haven't noticed any potential breakage.  If somebody
>> wanted to point out to me what the (potential) Windows issues are, we
>> could take a look.
>>      
> Redirecting you to Anthony here for the specifics. The main problem is that we don't have anyone who takes the lead on Windows support. _If_ something breaks of _if_ we need someone to take over the windows specific parts, there's this huge gap.
>    

Uh, Windows system simulation has never worked reliably.  It doesn't 
even have proper AIO support.

If someone is building a product based on it, I'm amazed.

> So if you're willing to play that role, please send a patch to the MAINTAINERS file and add yourself :)
>
> Btw Anthony, what happened to the really well done MAINTAINERS file overhaul?
>    

I think I just forgot to commit it.  Unfortunately, Savannah's now down :-(

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Alex
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