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Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 19:54:20 +0100
From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Modular qemu?
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Plugins are not the solution though.
>
> What about non-plugin dlopen()?  Right now building qemu (with all  
> options enabled) requires a large amount of libraries, hence a lot of  
> dependencies.  For example, a server setup that will only be used with  
> -vnc needs to have SDL installed.  This will only get worse with opengl  
> support.
>
> I'm thinking of something similar to linux kernel modules: no backward  
> compatible ABI, simply load-on-demand functionality that can be packaged  
> separately to reduce dependencies.  With kvm integrated, we could even  
> make the cpu emulator an optional loadable module.

What problem would this solve?


Thiemo