[libvirt] [PATCH] Refactor the libvirt RPM daemon pieces

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 02:22:01PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> 
> NB: this is in response to a Fedora 17 beta blocker bug.
> Currently gnome-boxes depends on 'libvirt' which pulls
> in the default virtual network, which kills networking
> if you install Fedora 17 inside a KVM guest.
> 
> There are a number of flaws with our packaging of the libvirtd
> daemon:
> 
>  - Installing 'libvirt' does not install 'qemu-kvm' or 'xen'
>    etc which are required to actually run the hypervisor in
>    question
>  - Installing 'libvirt' pulls in the default configuration
>    files which may not be wanted & cause problems if installed
>    inside a guest
>  - It is not possible to explicitly required all the peices
>    required to manage a specific hypervisor
> 
> This change takes the 'libvirt' RPM and and changes it thus
> 
>  - libvirt: just a virtual package with dep on libvirt-daemon and
>    libvirt-daemon-configs
>  - libvirt-daemon: the libvirt daemon and related pieces
>  - libvirt-daemon-configs: the default network & filter configs

It occurs to me that we perhaps ought to split the configs into
two pieces too.

The Xen and UML drivers only support the network driver, so they
don't need the network filter configs

The OpenStack NOVA project does not want the default NAT network,
but it does want the network filter configs.

So I'm thinking instead of libvirt-daemon-configs, create:

  - libvirt-daemon-config-network
  - libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter


Regards,
Daniel
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