From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Modular qemu?
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 19:54:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081205185420.GA26481@networkno.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <493970B9.3060807@redhat.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-05 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-05 10:53 [Qemu-devel] Modular qemu? Joop Boonen
2008-12-05 12:40 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2008-12-05 14:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-05 14:52 ` Laurent Desnogues
2008-12-05 15:07 ` Glauber Costa
2008-12-05 15:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-05 15:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-05 18:19 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-05 18:54 ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]
2008-12-05 19:02 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-05 19:27 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-05 19:37 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-05 19:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-05 18:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2008-12-05 18:57 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-12-05 19:12 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-09 13:06 ` Jun Koi
2008-12-09 13:17 ` Stefano Stabellini
2008-12-09 13:44 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-05 22:10 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2008-12-06 13:23 ` Lionel Landwerlin
2008-12-08 10:15 ` Stefano Stabellini
2008-12-17 13:34 ` Ian Jackson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-08 23:58 Salvatore Lionetti
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