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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:16:21 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by
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To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
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>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>, Arun Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Am 09.02.2011 18:13, schrieb Blue Swirl:
> I think win32 situation is somewhat similar (but not nearly as bad as)
> to kqemu's. It was useful for some users, but there were no
> maintenance and when it got in the way, it was removed because nobody
> could fix it.
>
> But I'd prefer a solution where somebody steps up as Windows
> maintainer. I'm also doing regular mingw32 builds but otherwise not
> much.
>

VNC threads can be compiled for W32, too.
A short test of the resulting executable was successful, no problems.

The patch is available here:
http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/ar7.git/commitdiff/aabf11dc0a938b84d76d7c147cbf0445d7bee297

I decided to create a new directory structure hosts/w32, so files can
be moved from the root to hosts/posix, hosts/w32, or hosts/xxx.
Include chains reduce code modifications and conditional compilations.
And people who don't want to see w32 support can remove it easily :-)

Supporting I/O threads for W32 will be possible, too.

I don't think that W32 support is a big problem. It never was.
Some of the real problems were already named in the previous mails.

Regards,
Stefan Weil