On 6/14/19 11:42 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Am 13.06.2019 um 21:41 hat Stefan Weil geschrieben: >> On 12.06.19 15:27, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: >>> Cc'ing Alex (Docker, Travis) and Stefan (MinGW) >> [...] >>> Note, libssh is not available on MinGW. >> >> Nor is it available for Mingw64:
Yes, by "MinGW" I mean both 32/64 implementations. >> >> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=mingw64-x86_64-libssh&arch=x86_64 >> >> That makes building for Windows more difficult because there is an >> additional dependency which must be built from source. > > How many people do actually use the ssh block driver on Windows, though? > Isn't just building QEMU without it a quite reasonable option, too? > > I wouldn't consider this a strong argument why we should keep using an > obsolete library. I agree with Kevin. The only user of the 'ssh' block driver that I am aware of is the virt-v2v tool: http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#convert-from-esxi-hypervisor-over-ssh-to-local-libvirt Stefan, do you think someone would use it on a Windows host? Thanks, Phil.
