Re: QEMU / KVM support in libvirt & virt-manager

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:32:58AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >FYI, as of libvirt 0.2.0  and virt-manager 0.3.1 there is now 
> >(experimental!)
> >support for managing virtual machines running under QEMU or KVM 
> >virtualization
> >platforms, as well as the existing Xen support.
> >
> >  
> 
> Great; as I see it hit FC6-updates I'll give it a shot.
> 
> One thing I saw is that it pulls in Xen as part of the dependencies; 
> perhaps a libvirt-xen and libvirt-kvm subpackage split is called for?

Yeah, we've not figured out exactly how to address that dependancy
issue yet - the libvirt.so has to link to libxenstore as part of the
Xen driver, so even if you only want to manage QEMU instances we still
end up pulling in Xen. We're certainly going to make it possible to
turn off the Xen stuff at compile time. Not clear how we'd address the
RPM dep issue though because the Fedora builds of libvirt will include
both Xen & QEMU support. Perhaps we'll have to try a dlopen() approach.

Dan.
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