Re: [Qemu-devel] Modular qemu?

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:

> This has been discussed before and I believe the overall consensus was
> that plugins are not desirable.
> 
> With respect to the various forks of QEMU, I believe the real problem is
> that historically, people have had a tough time getting changes into
> QEMU.  This is not just a matter of getting patches accepted, but also
> getting the appropriate guidance about how to refactor things to take
> into account all of the various architecture combinations that QEMU
> supports and some of the longer term efforts.
> 
> I hope this situation is improving.  If people have feedback in how
> things could be improved, I think everyone is eager to here it.  Plugins
> are not the solution though.
> 


I think that getting patches accepted (or at least reviewed) is far more
important than plugins or shared libraries.
>From my point of view surely the situation has improved a lot recently
on this aspect.