On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 06:03:29PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 10:53:52AM -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote: > > On 11/24/22 03:57, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > - Ask for 'libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu', 'libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev', > > > which also gives you > > > > > > - libvirt-daemon > > > > > > The bare minimum libvirt pieces, but not the hypervisor itself > > > > Why not the hypervisor in this scenario? > > 'qemu-kvm' is a "typical installation" of QEMU packages on Fedora. > > People wanting minimal installations want to fine tune exactly > which qemu-kvm-XXXX sub packages they install. So we don't force > any dep from 'libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu', let the user choose > exactly what they want. I wonder if we could use Requires: qemu-kvm-core Recommends: qemu-kvm here. The idea being that default installations would get a fully-featured QEMU binary, whiel those aiming for a minimal install would be able to disable recommends and get a stripped down, but still functional, QEMU binary. > > > The only thing we can't achieve this way is to install libvirtd and > > > QEMU, without having the module daemons present. I'm not sure that > > > matters though, if we aim to discontinue shipping libvirtd long term. That's already the case today, so I'd say there's no need to worry about it. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
