On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 06:03:29PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 10:53:52AM -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote:
On 11/24/22 03:57, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
- Ask for 'libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu', 'libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev', which also gives you
- libvirt-daemon
The bare minimum libvirt pieces, but not the hypervisor itself
Why not the hypervisor in this scenario?
'qemu-kvm' is a "typical installation" of QEMU packages on Fedora.
People wanting minimal installations want to fine tune exactly which qemu-kvm-XXXX sub packages they install. So we don't force any dep from 'libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu', let the user choose exactly what they want.
I wonder if we could use Requires: qemu-kvm-core Recommends: qemu-kvm here. The idea being that default installations would get a fully-featured QEMU binary, whiel those aiming for a minimal install would be able to disable recommends and get a stripped down, but still functional, QEMU binary.
The only thing we can't achieve this way is to install libvirtd and QEMU, without having the module daemons present. I'm not sure that matters though, if we aim to discontinue shipping libvirtd long term.
That's already the case today, so I'd say there's no need to worry about it. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization