kallan

The posix side of the qemu guest agent uses fcntl() with the O_NONBLOCK arg. Without the availability of fcntl() on the Win32 side of things, I would like to see if I can come up with an equivalent mechanism for doing non-blocking reads and writes using the overlapped approach in ReadFile() and WriteFile().

When running WHQL tests on the Windows VMDP drivers, one test requires the server vm to be in core mode. Once in core mode, it is difficult to modify NIC parameters and adjust disk partitions. I want to make a simple command line utility that will enable making these kind of changes when in core mode. Remote server management is possible but requires a lot of setup and some features I need are lacking.

Using mingw on Winodws, port the ceph rbd client to Windows. Start by compiling the files and porting any posix isms like fork, ecec, wait, join, etc. Then find the ceph libraries that it uses and repeat the process. Hopefully I'll get to the point where I can start to link and see what other functionality needs to be ported over.

To support the Windows vdagent, I need to get a mingw environment in place. I plan to do this from a VM. Once the vdagent is built, I want to add it to the VMDP package.

Now that Windows Fall Creator is out, I wanted to enable Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on my VMDP build box and install openSUSE. Then inside openSUSE, I wanted to be able to build the qemu-ga component for VMDP. After adding the mingw packages along with git, I was successful in building qemu-ga. My next step is to move the built qemu-ga components into the packaging area of VMDP to produce the full VMDP package with qemu-ga in it.