From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Loadable block drivers?
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:11:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180403031147.GC6839@lemon.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEMkAmGoPm8p0MKumctDPodaD4PCUYi4X=ovs+kMO9xTKGkLeQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 04/03 12:59, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> Hi all, was looking at developing a block driver for qemu - have examined
> the drivers at:
>
> https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/master/block
>
> And it seems straightforward enough.
>
> One thing that is unclear - all the drivers appear to be compiled directly
> into qemu. Is there no way to load them dynamically as .so modules?
'./configure --enable-modules' will enable building block drivers as .so
objects, and they are loaded dynamically. These are in-tree .so modules;
out-of-tree modules like in Linux kernel are intentionally forbidden.
Fam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-03 3:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-03 2:59 [Qemu-devel] Loadable block drivers? Lindsay Mathieson
2018-04-03 3:11 ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2018-04-03 3:17 ` Lindsay Mathieson
2018-04-03 3:30 ` Fam Zheng
2018-04-04 13:41 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2018-04-05 1:40 ` Lindsay Mathieson
2018-04-08 9:27 ` Fam Zheng
2018-04-09 6:19 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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