On 09/05/2010 06:57 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 09/05/2010 10:10 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
As a baby step, is there any chance of publishing an automatic
nightly Windows (cross-)build as a .zip file on qemu.org? That might
give more users a chance of detecting runtime faults during the
development cycle.
That's doable and useful, yes.
I doubt it's useful.
We don't have a massive pool of developers sitting on their hands
waiting for something else to work on. We don't have myriads of users
demanding better Windows support. Search the list, there's almost no
one asking questions about Windows and considering that it's missing a
ton of features and constantly broken, that strongly suggests that no
one is actually using it.
Or maybe, real users don't use the git repository, so they aren't aware
of the constant breakage.
Windows support in QEMU is an academic exercise that's only of
interest to developers.
I'm perfectly fine with dropping it. btw, there are other features in
qemu that seem to be academic exercises - *-user for example. What is
it useful for? Most open source stuff is multiplatform, and serious
commercial work needs something faster than tcg.
I can understand cross-cpu system mode being very useful to embedded or
kernel developers. x-on-x is only useful with virtualization, otherwise
the performance penalty is too great.
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