Re: [Qemu-devel] Loadable block drivers?

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 04/03 12:59, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> Hi all, was looking at developing a block driver for qemu - have examined
> the drivers at:
> 
>   https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/master/block
> 
> And it seems straightforward enough.
> 
> One thing that is unclear - all the drivers appear to be compiled directly
> into qemu. Is there no way to load them dynamically as .so modules?

'./configure --enable-modules' will enable building block drivers as .so
objects, and they are loaded dynamically. These are in-tree .so modules;
out-of-tree modules like in Linux kernel are intentionally forbidden.

Fam