Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 00/11] qemu-ga: fsfreeze on Windows using VSS

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 23/05/2013 14:15, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:33:33AM -0400, Tomoki Sekiyama wrote:
>> * How to build & run qemu-ga with VSS support
>>
>>  - Download Microsoft VSS SDK from:
>>    http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23490
>>
>>  - Setup the SDK
>>    scripts/extract-vsssdk-headers setup.exe (on POSIX-systems)
>>
>>  - Specify installed SDK directory to configure option as:
>>    ./configure -with-vss-sdk="path/to/VSS SDK" 
>> --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32-
> 
> Are there any plans to make this more developer-friendly?  In the Linux
> world it's unusual to download third-party SDKs; development headers are
> available as packages from the distro.
> 
> I haven't looked at the SDK license but hopefully the VSS headers can be
> added to the mingw cross-build toolchain?

No, the mingw headers are (re)written by hand, or something like that.
The VSS license does not permit redistribution. :/

Paolo