From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53807 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PN4oM-0006XD-VQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:34:35 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PN4oL-0003HS-V0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:34:34 -0500 Received: from mail-gy0-f173.google.com ([209.85.160.173]:34842) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PN4oL-0003HC-SJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:34:33 -0500 Received: by gye5 with SMTP id 5so2212718gye.4 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 06:34:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4CF3B9F4.9090807@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:34:28 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Windows host support [was: Re: [Qemu-devel] CFP: 1st International QEMU Users Forum] References: <20101125235615.157DC28C0F@zimbra14-e2.priv.proxad.net> <9E836916-8225-4368-B562-C68B90611CDF@free.fr> <20101128001719.GO8544@codesourcery.com> <7CC3C2D7-125A-4BDB-954B-275576211D6A@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <7CC3C2D7-125A-4BDB-954B-275576211D6A@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: wolfgang mueller , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ic_P=E9trot?= , Nathan Froyd , QEMU-devel Developers , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_?=@gnu.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Revol?= , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9r?=@gnu.org On 11/28/2010 04:56 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 28.11.2010, at 01:17, Nathan Froyd wrote: > > >> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 01:26:31AM +0100, François Revol wrote: >> >>>>> 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 > >