On Mon, 2018-10-08 at 12:59 +0200, Peter Krempa wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 17:18:44 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-10-05 at 16:43 +0200, Ján Tomko wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 05:25:26PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > > @@ -756,6 +755,13 @@ virQEMUCapsInitGuest(virCapsPtr caps, > > > > */ > > > > binary = virQEMUCapsFindBinaryForArch(hostarch, guestarch); > > > > > > > > + /* RHEL doesn't follow the usual naming for QEMU binaries and ships > > > > + * a single binary named qemu-kvm outside of $PATH instead */ > > > > > > This does not look like something upstream libvirt should worry about. > > > > I would be simple enough to turn this into a downstream-only patch; > > however, by doing so we would lose the ability to run unchanged > > upstream libvirt on top of RHEL, so I think it's preferable to > > leave it alone. > > Well, if we are going to bend the rules and make a hack for the mess > some downstream distro made, then we should keep the original code which > allows to add mess for other distros as well. The downstream path names I dropped are no longer necessary because Debian and friends are using the standard binary names in all releases we support; the same is not true of RHEL, which is why that one path has not been removed along with the rest. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
