Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 08/11] qemu: Simplify QEMU binary search
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.
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization