[libvirt] [PATCH 00/10] Enable loadable modules for libvirtd

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Mon Apr 2 20:12:30 UTC 2012


On 04/02/2012 01:57 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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-kvm
> 
>  will not pull in Xen libraries!

Awesome.  It's too late to justify this in 0.9.11, but I hope to review
this in time for 0.9.12.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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