On Mon, 2018-10-08 at 12:59 +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 17:18:44 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-10-05 at 16:43 +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 05:25:26PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > > @@ -756,6 +755,13 @@ virQEMUCapsInitGuest(virCapsPtr caps,
> > > */
> > > binary = virQEMUCapsFindBinaryForArch(hostarch, guestarch);
> > >
> > > + /* RHEL doesn't follow the usual naming for QEMU binaries and
ships
> > > + * a single binary named qemu-kvm outside of $PATH instead */
> >
> > This does not look like something upstream libvirt should worry about.
>
> I would be simple enough to turn this into a downstream-only patch;
> however, by doing so we would lose the ability to run unchanged
> upstream libvirt on top of RHEL, so I think it's preferable to
> leave it alone.
Well, if we are going to bend the rules and make a hack for the mess
some downstream distro made, then we should keep the original code which
allows to add mess for other distros as well.
The downstream path names I dropped are no longer necessary because
Debian and friends are using the standard binary names in all
releases we support; the same is not true of RHEL, which is why that
one path has not been removed along with the rest.
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization