From: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>
To: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Check availability of uuid header / lib
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:32:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910021032.09528.Christoph.Egger@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AC4F145.400@mail.berlios.de>
On Thursday 01 October 2009 20:13:25 Stefan Weil wrote:
> Christoph Egger schrieb:
> > On Thursday 23 July 2009 22:27:54 Stefan Weil wrote:
> >> The Universally Unique Identifier library will be used
> >> for the new vdi block driver and maybe other parts of QEMU.
> >
> > This is very Linux specific.
> > On NetBSD, the header is in <sys/uuid.h> and part of libc.
> > The API implements DCE 1.1 RPC specification which is
> > very different from Linux uuid.
> >
> > Christoph
>
> The Linux implementation claims to conform to OSF DCE 1.1,
> see manpages of libuuid.
>
> Do you think that we need a QEMU wrapper to handle different
> implementations?
Yes. This has already been abstracted in Xen's blktap2 implementation.
You can adapt it to QEMU.
Christoph
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-03 19:24 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RFC: Add new block driver for the VDI format Stefan Weil
2009-07-03 19:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Check availability of uuid header / lib Stefan Weil
2009-07-03 19:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add new block driver for the VDI format Stefan Weil
2009-07-05 8:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-05 14:02 ` Stefan Weil
2009-07-06 10:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-06 17:19 ` Stefan Weil
2009-07-05 14:44 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-06 13:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RFC: " Anthony Liguori
2009-07-06 21:10 ` Stefan Weil
2009-07-06 21:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-07 7:55 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-07 9:04 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-07 10:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-07 10:33 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-08-02 14:27 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-03 2:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-03 13:02 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-03 15:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-23 15:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RFC: Add new block driver for the VDI format (aio version) Stefan Weil
2009-07-23 20:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Check availability of uuid header / lib Stefan Weil
2009-07-24 6:32 ` Christoph Egger
2009-10-01 18:13 ` Stefan Weil
2009-10-02 8:32 ` Christoph Egger [this message]
2009-10-01 18:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Check availability of uuid header / library Stefan Weil
2009-07-23 20:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add new block driver for the VDI format (use aio) Stefan Weil
2009-07-24 9:18 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-24 16:20 ` Stefan Weil
2009-07-27 8:00 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-27 9:23 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-28 6:37 ` Amit Shah
2009-07-28 8:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-28 8:56 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-07-28 9:03 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-28 9:11 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-31 15:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-31 19:53 ` Stefan Weil
2009-07-31 15:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-31 18:27 ` Stefan Weil
2009-07-31 19:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add new block driver for the VDI format (only aio supported) Stefan Weil
2009-07-23 20:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add support for new option of vdi format Stefan Weil
2009-07-23 20:34 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Weil
2009-07-31 14:59 ` [Qemu-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-13 16:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2009-07-03 21:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Check availability of uuid header / lib Stefan Weil
2009-07-22 20:43 ` Stefan Weil
2009-07-22 21:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-23 15:49 ` Stefan Weil
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