On 5/21/13 12:53 , "Eric Blake" <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: >On 05/21/2013 09:33 AM, Tomoki Sekiyama wrote: >> To enable VSS support in qemu-ga for Windows, header files included in >> VSS SDK is required. >> The VSS support is enabled when the option like below: >> ./configure --with-vss-sdk="/pass/to/VSS SDK" >> >> VSS SDK is available from: >> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23490 >> >> To cross-compilie using mingw32 for Linux, you need to setup the SDK on > >s/compilie/compile/ > >There are two mingw projects: mingw (older, 32-bit only) and mingw64 >(newer, both 32- and 64-bit support). The name 'mingw32' is misleading, >as neither project uses it. Fedora uses mingw64.
Ah, I should say just mingw here. >> Windows environments to extract headers. You can also extract the SDK >> headers using scripts/extract-vss-headers, written by Paolo Bonzini. > >I haven't downloaded the sdk to check for myself; are we breaking any >licensing restrictions by compiling against those files? I believe it is ok while the SDK is used for development of software running on Windows, and while the SDK is not redistributed.