This allows removing of MinGW specific code and improves
reentrancy for POSIX hosts.

[Removed unused ret variable in qemu_get_timedate() to fix warning:
vl.c: In function ‘qemu_get_timedate’:
vl.c:451:16: error: variable ‘ret’ set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]
-- Stefan Hajnoczi]
Signed-off-by: NStefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: NStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>