[Libvir] 14/22 No uname function

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 11:34:56AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> Windows doesn't have uname or <sys/utsname.h>.
>>
>> We can't get the model info without more delving into the Win32 API. 
>> This just disables the functionality temporarily, but a proper fix will 
>> be to find out how to do this under Windows.
> 
> +1 , but raises a question to me, we don't really expect to use libvirt
> to drive virtualization on Windows but just for remote access, right ?
> In that case the Node in question can only be remote and not having an
> implementation is just fine.

This is true.  Even the test driver (the only non-remote driver on 
Windows) wouldn't use it.

However I guess that qemu could work on Windows and then this code could 
become active ... if someone was sufficiently motivated in future to 
enable qemu support.

Rich.

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