Anthony Liguori a écrit : > On 02/08/2011 04:27 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> Stefan Hajnoczi a écrit : >> >>> Introducing IOTHREAD made !CONFIG_IOTHREAD platforms second class >>> citizens. I think you'd like people to provide full support when they >>> introduce new features. >>> >>> >> I think you really pointed the problem here. We should probably add a >> feature that will make KVM second class citizen so that people can >> understand what it means. >> > > Aurelien, > > Have you actually run QEMU on Windows and tried to use it to do > something useful? > > As an exercise, walk through the various releases of QEMU and compare > how well it works on Windows to any Unix platform. Windows support in > QEMU has always been a second class citizen.
I never tried to get it working on windows, but I know some people using it there. We should just don't ignore them. Maybe it's not perfect, but it is enough for those people. > If someone is willing to stand up and properly maintain it, I'm all for > doing whatever we can to be supportive of that person but as of right > now, that doesn't exist. There are regular patches for windows support, Stefan Weil is producing builds regularly. Maybe it doesn't have all the features, but people are making sure it basically works. Now you want to break that because the *new* feature you want to introduce is not supported on windows. I insist on the fact it is a new feature simply because it was *disabled* by default. So I don't buy the argument about "that person don't exist". Send a call for help on that subject, give the people some time to come with a solution (let's put a deadline), and then if nobody appears we can definitely consider Windows support as dead. But it should not be done arbitrary. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
