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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 05/11/2011 07:52 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 05/11/2011 02:51 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> How about a generic thread fallback? That's what we do in gtk-vnc and
>> it solves the portability issue in a very robust way.
>
> A very slow way, too (on Windows at least if you use qemu_cond...).

That doesn't mean you can't do a fiber implementation for Windows... but 
having a highly portable fallback is a good thing.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paolo