Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Move VirtualBox driver into libvirtd

From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; Change the build process & driver initialization so that the VirtualBox driver is built into libvirtd, instead of libvirt.so This change avoids the VirtualBox GPLv2-only license causing compatibility problems with libvirt.so which is under the GPLv2-or-later license. NB this change prevents use of the VirtualBox driver on the Windows platform, until such time as libvirtd can be made to work there.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; --- daemon/libvirtd.c | 9 +++++++++ docs/drvvbox.html.in | 12 ++++++++++++ src/Makefile.am | 24 +++++++++++++++++++----- src/libvirt.c | 7 ------- 4 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) + <p> + <strong>NOTE: as of libvirt 1.0.6, the VirtualBox driver will always + run inside the libvirtd daemon, instead of being built-in to the + libvirt.so library directly. This change was required due to the + fact that VirtualBox code is GPLv2-only licensed, which is not + compatible with the libvirt.so license of GPLv2-or-later. The + daemon will be auto-started when the first connection to VirtualBox

+ is requested. This change also means it is no longer possible to + use the VirtualBox on the Windows platform, which lacks support + for the libvirtd daemon.</strong>