From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57224) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UfUQs-0007lG-2O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 May 2013 08:15:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UfUQm-00026H-SE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 May 2013 08:15:45 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-x22f.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::22f]:59699) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UfUQm-00025t-Lj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 May 2013 08:15:40 -0400 Received: by mail-wg0-f47.google.com with SMTP id e11so2108917wgh.14 for ; Thu, 23 May 2013 05:15:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 14:15:37 +0200 From: Stefan Hajnoczi Message-ID: <20130523121537.GK9093@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> References: <20130521153333.4880.74390.stgit@hds.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130521153333.4880.74390.stgit@hds.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 00/11] qemu-ga: fsfreeze on Windows using VSS List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Tomoki Sekiyama Cc: mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, lcapitulino@redhat.com, vrozenfe@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, seiji.aguchi@hds.com, areis@redhat.com On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:33:33AM -0400, Tomoki Sekiyama wrote: > * How to build & run qemu-ga with VSS support > > - Download Microsoft VSS SDK from: > http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23490 > > - Setup the SDK > scripts/extract-vsssdk-headers setup.exe (on POSIX-systems) > > - Specify installed SDK directory to configure option as: > ./configure -with-vss-sdk="path/to/VSS SDK" --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- Are there any plans to make this more developer-friendly? In the Linux world it's unusual to download third-party SDKs; development headers are available as packages from the distro. I haven't looked at the SDK license but hopefully the VSS headers can be added to the mingw cross-build toolchain? Stefan