Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 06/10] qemu-ga: Add Windows VSS provider to quiesce applications on fsfreeze

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 06/06/2013 17:06, Tomoki Sekiyama ha scritto:
> +STDAPI VSSCheckOSVersion(void);
> +
> +STDAPI COMRegister(void);
> +STDAPI COMUnregister(void);
> +
> +STDAPI DllRegisterServer(void);
> +STDAPI DllUnregisterServer(void);

Can you explain the difference between COMRegister/COMUnregister and
DllRegisterServer/DllUnregisterServer (and why the COM+ part need not be
done by regsvr32)?  Also, why does COMUnregister call
DllUnregisterServer but COMRegister does not call DllRegisterServer?

Also, is it needed to call VSSCheckOSVersion from the requestor?  I
would think that checking VSSAPI.DLL is stronger than checking the
version, and indeed you do that check too.

Sorry for the probably stupid questions, COM stuff is way beyond my
Windows knowledge.

Paolo