Re: virtiofsd: Where should it live?

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@linaro.org) wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 10:53, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > We seem to be coming to the conclusion something that:
> >
> >   a) It should live in the qemu tree
> >   b) It shouldn't live under contrib
> >   c) We'll create a new top level, i.e. 'daemons'
> >   d) virtiofsd will be daemons/virtiofsd
> >
> > Now, somethings I'm less clear on:
> >   e) What else would move into daemons?  It was suggested
> >     that if we've got virtiofsd in there, then we should move
> >     libvhost-user - which I understand, but then it's not a
> >     'daemons'.
> >     Are there any otehr daemons that should move?
> 
> I like the idea of a new top level directory, but I think
> 'daemons' is a bit too specific -- for instance it seems to
> me that qemu-img would be sensible to move out of the root,
> and that's not a daemon.

What would your preference be?

Thomas was suggesting 'tools'.

Dave

> thanks
> -- PMM
> 
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