Re: [Qemu-devel] WinQEMU - a Windows native version of QEMU

[Anthony Liguori]

celestialwy wrote:
> WinQEMU is a Windows native version of QEMU (from 0.10.1). It ports
> the source code of QEMU to Visual C++ 2008. Consequently, it decouple
> the compilation of QEMU with the POSIX build environment. Compiling
> QEMU with Visual C++ should be very convenient for modifying and
> debugging for the Windows developers :D
> Thanks a lot for Fabrice Bellard's great work on QEMU!
> Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/winqemu/
> To run WinQEMU, please follow these four steps:
> 1. Download and set up the VC++ 2008 Redist, download URL:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=259759&filename=vcredist_x86_eng.exe&a=95765247
> <http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=259759&filename=vcredist_x86_eng.exe&a=95765247>
> 2. Download and unzip the WinQEMU.0.10.1.zip
> 3. Update WinQEMU.dll, WinQEMUTest.exe and WinQEMUImage.exe with the
> latest WinQEMU package (so far, the newest version is 0.10.5)
> 4. Execute linux.bat to run the preinstalled Linux.img. Of course, you
> can change the BAT file to install a new OS image. Download URL
> http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=259759&filename=WinQEMU.0.10.1.zip&a=30733783
> <http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=259759&filename=WinQEMU.0.10.1.zip&a=30733783>

Can you post a patch of the changes required to get QEMU to compile
under msvc? I'm not interested in the build infrastructure changes, I'm
just curious about source changes. If there are bits of those changes
that are reasonable, we could look at merging those.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori