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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, Arun Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

On 02/08/2011 10:12 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> The guilty here is IOTHREAD. Windows support predates IOTHREAD concept,
>
> QEMU has never "supported" Windows.

I think both assertions are false.

What's true is that the Win32 port has never evolved beyond "barely 
functional", at least by the standards with which QEMU is judged under 
Linux.

Paolo