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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

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?

Stefan