On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 08:47:14AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > Well. Will qemu still actually _run_ without glusterfs being present? If > so, do we actually need to express a dependency on glusterfs? No, I don't think so. I think it'll fail to start up because of a missing library. We could change qemu so it includes the block drivers, but each block drive dlopen(3)'s the special libraries it needs on start up, but that would make the code more complex. I really think the way to fix this is to make the block drivers loadable, and that is something which as far as I understand is desirable upstream too, just no one has written a set of patches which is acceptable. If we did this, packaging it right in Fedora would be simple; you'd end up with: qemu-block-gluster qemu-block-iscsi qemu-block-ssh etc. which would be independently installable subpackages that would depend on the correct libraries. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
