libvirt_connect_get_machine_types

Simon Fairweather simon.n.fairweather at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 10:27:56 UTC 2022


Awesome, thanks!

On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 10:02 AM Michal Prívozník <mprivozn at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On 12/6/22 20:13, Simon Fairweather wrote:
> > Thanks for the update. What does this mean?
> >
> > The only problem is that QEMU feeds us PPM which is not wired to PHP
> > really.
> >
> > We are using this patch to remove imageMagik as it is not required for
> > our needs.
> > Eric - I strip out the requirement for ImageMagick because of all the
> > dependancies
> > needed for that peice.  ImageMagick is only used for libvirt's
> > screenshot API calls
> > which we dont even take advantage of in the unRAID web UI.
> > --- a/configure.ac <http://configure.ac>  2016-10-05 22:20:39.172968837
> > -0500
> > +++ b/configure.ac <http://configure.ac>  2016-10-05 22:21:05.645301252
> > -0500
> > @@ -172,8 +172,6 @@
> >  LIBVIRT_CHECK_PHP_EXTENSIONDIR
> >  LIBVIRT_CHECK_PHP_CONFDIR
> >
> > -LIBVIRT_CHECK_PHP_EXTENSION([imagick])
> > -
>
> Yeah, pretty much every distro uses this patch. The problem is, without
> imagick the examples won't work:
>
> libvirt-php.git/tests $ php -n -c php.ini -S localhost:8080
> ../examples/index.php
>
> BUT, here's what I can do. I just found out that QEMU added support for
> taking screenshots in PNG format, so I can fix libvirt to prefer that
> (PPM is not very well supported anyway - I haven't found a browser that
> would render it) and drop imagick completely. Then I can do the release
> and distros can then just drop the patch.
>
> Michal
>
>
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