On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:06:02PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > So my guess would be to make kvm/qemu bigger.. make it work in Windows. Apart from WinKVM already mentioned, you can run straight qemu on Windows. It works like a charm, not very fast, but good enough for testing things. We are even able to cross-compile it using the Fedora Windows cross-compiler project! The story with the higher level management tools is not very good. You can compile libvirt on Windows (in fact, we cross-compile it in Fedora -- see mingw32-libvirt). However this only includes the client side library. Useful for connecting to remote libvirt instances running on real operating systems, but the daemon *cannot* be compiled on Windows meaning you can't control a local qemu.exe. virt-manager would in theory work on Windows (using eg. Active Python). Since we're only interested in cross-compiling things [treating Windows as a weird badly-behaved embedded OS] we can't do that, because Python itself has a broken build system that doesn't understand cross-compilation [Python issues 5404, 1597850]. Cross-compiling any C program that uses libvirt is usually easy. I've also had the OCaml programs like virt-top and guestfs-browser cross-compiled to Windows. The OCaml cross-chain isn't in Fedora, but ironically Debian took that work and ran with it, and they provide a decent OCaml cross-chain now. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
