Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 00/10 v2] Enable loadable modules for libvirtd
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 08:59:08PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
A simple rebase of
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-April/msg00045.html
For a long timer we've had the ability to build each libvirt
driver as a loadable module. We have never used this by default
and as a result it constantly bit-rots.
This series fixes various bugs, and then enables it by default
in configure. It also makes the PRMs use the loadable modules,
adding new new sub-RPMs for each module. We can now finally
install minimal libvirt binaries for each hypervisor.
ie yum install libvirt-daemon-kvm
will not pull in Xen libraries!
Changes in v2:
- Fix build with dtrace
- Rebase to latest GIT master
ACK on the general idea, I see Eric reviewed the patches already.
I would suggest we add a note (mainly in docs/drivers.html.in and
possibly in docs/internals.html.in) stating that the APIs used by
the drivers are internal and not part of the ABI guarantees even
if they are distributed as separate shared library.
Historically we had punted on enabling shared libraries to avoid
proprietary drivers, now the daemon runs as GPL by the virtue of linking
with GPL libraries so that may discourage such behaviour but we should
at least make clear that we won't make shipping out of source drivers
an easy task :)
Daniel
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