On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 20:10 +0100, Arnaud Quette wrote:
> Hi Albert and the list,
>
> 2012/12/5 Albert Chu <
address@hidden>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> > first of all your tool is really awesome. I like the concept
> and
> > respect the effort you guys are putting into development.
> Since
> > Release you are constantly updating this tool and making it
> better.
>
> Thanks
>
> I'm seconding Patrick. And especially you Al, you are doing an awesome
> work with FreeIPMI!
>
>
> > I have one little question. We are having many Windows Based
> Systems
> > here, so there is no chance I can use and benefit from
> freeipmi. So my
> > question is if you have ever considered to do an windows
> version of
> > free ipmi. There is only one tool available “ipmiutil” that
> supports
> > windows, it is also open source, but lacks some relevant
> things. I
> > would be please to use your free ipmi tool on a windows
> machine.
>
> I personally wouldn't mind trying to get FreeIPMI to work in
> Windows,
> however I've never had access to Windows running on an IPMI
> capable
> server. It's something my company just doesn't do.
>
> So I just don't have the capability to do it. I have always
> hoped that
> someone from the community would be able to add support.
>
> It's great to see that this thread is still alive.
> I've some Windows server that are IPMI capable, under the hand.
> And I'm seriously considering the option of a mingw port of FreeIPMI,
> and would be pouring some resources into this effort.
> A member of my team very quickly tried a compilation, but it has been
> so miserably failing that he thrown the towel almost instantly...
>
> So, would you be considering a mingw effort?
> How could we help and synchronize?
>
> cheers,
> Arnaud
>
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