Re: [Qemu-devel] Modular qemu?

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>> You build qemu once, but with separate sub-packages:
>>
>>  qemu
>>  qemu-sdl
>>  qemu-vnc
>>  qemu-tcg
>>  qemu-kvm
>
> Fair enough, but we're getting the cart before the horse.  We need to 
> have clean internal separations between these components before a 
> shared library interface really matters.  Note, this is really just 
> dividing QEMU into shared libraries, it's not really a plugin mechanism.

Right, I even introduced it as such.  I don't think the separation will 
be difficult (not does it need to be perfect, given that we're not 
committing to an ABI).

>
> I'm less interested in the shared library bits (although I understand 
> it's usefulness from a distro perspective) and more interested in 
> being able to build out a lot of these things.

Parse failure.  What does building out mean? ./configure --disable-blah?

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