Re: [libvirt] License issues

2013/5/1 Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com&gt;: > Implementation wise, this would mean that we compile the vbox driver as > an independent module (much the same as we do for qemu or lxc), and link > that module into libvirtd rather than into libvirt.so directly. In > libvirt.so, attempts to use a vbox:// URI would then be forwarded over > RPC to libvirtd, instead of directly using vbox code. vbox would then > be a remote instead of a local protocol. Since existing vbox:// > connections are local, vbox users have not previously had to ensure that > the system libvirtd daemon is running. Therefore, I suspect that it > would be nicer to reuse the qemu://session code that auto-spawns a > session libvirtd, so that from the user standpoint, they can continue to > connect to vbox without having to have a libvirtd system daemon running. > The initial connection time will take slightly longer as a session > libvirtd is autospawned, but that should not be too much impact. This will break Virtual Box support on Windows, because libvirtd doesn't work on Windows yet.