Windows host support [was: Re: [Qemu-devel] CFP: 1st International QEMU Users Forum]

[Nathan Froyd]

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.

-Nathan