Hi Collin,
> Unrelated to your commits (thanks for fixing those, though), but I
> assume you are using QEMU to emulate arm64 and run Windows on it?
>
> Is running it fairly straightforward?
Yes, it uses QEMU. You find the installation steps in
maint-tools/platforms/environments/qemu/arm64-windows11.txt.
It does require some particular qemu options (for instance,
"-device ramfb" instead of "-device VGA"). If you try without
these options, it is not straightforward. If you know which options
to use and which CDROM image will actually boot, it is straightforward.
That's precisely the point of this write-up.
Note that the resulting development environment is slow, because
* QEMU needs to emulate the arm64 CPU.
* Windows 11 is so bloated that simple GUI actions like getting a popup
menu take several seconds.
* The only POSIX-like environments on Windows (Cygwin and MSYS2) come
as x86_64 binaries, and these binaries are emulated by the Windows
built-in x86_64-on-arm64 emulator.
As an alternative, for CI purposes, one can use the GitHub windows-11-arm
machines and install MSYS2 there. This is faster because it does not need
QEMU. But of course, this is not suitable for interactive debugging.
Bruno
