Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Move VirtualBox driver into libvirtd

From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; Change the build process & driver initialization so that the VirtualBox driver is built into libvirtd, instead of libvirt.so This change avoids the VirtualBox GPLv2-only license causing compatibility problems with libvirt.so which is under the GPLv2-or-later license. NB this change prevents use of the VirtualBox driver on the Windows platform, until such time as libvirtd can be made to work there. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; ---

diff --git a/docs/drvvbox.html.in b/docs/drvvbox.html.in index d59da57..e2a213c 100644 --- a/docs/drvvbox.html.in +++ b/docs/drvvbox.html.in @@ -31,6 +31,18 @@ vbox+tcp://user@example.com/session (remote access, SASl/Kerberos) vbox+ssh://user@example.com/session (remote access, SSH tunnelled) </pre> + <p> + <strong>NOTE: as of libvirt 1.0.6, the VirtualBox driver will always + run inside the libvirtd daemon, instead of being built-in to the + libvirt.so library directly. This change was required due to the + fact that VirtualBox code is GPLv2-only licensed, which is not + compatible with the libvirt.so license of GPLv2-or-later. The