[libvirt] [PATCH] [v2] Support kvm-img or qemu-img dynamically

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Jun 11 13:08:52 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:28:00AM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> This patch adds a new function virFindFileInPath() and uses it to find
> where a binary lives in the PATH environment variable. Using this, we
> can dynamically find where utility functions exist (and if they even
> exists). So such we remove the build-time check for qemu-img and make it
> dynamic for kvm-img and qemu-img. Several distros uses kvm-img over
> qemu-img when installing KVM. kvm-img also includes several patches
> which Red Hat is trying to upstream with QEMU so this patch supports
> those features which are commented out in libvirt when using kvm-img
> 
> Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe at gentoo.org>

ACK, this looks good


Daniel
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