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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> You build qemu once, but with separate sub-packages:
>
>  qemu
>  qemu-sdl
>  qemu-vnc
>  qemu-tcg
>  qemu-kvm

Fair enough, but we're getting the cart before the horse.  We need to 
have clean internal separations between these components before a shared 
library interface really matters.  Note, this is really just dividing 
QEMU into shared libraries, it's not really a plugin mechanism.

I'm less interested in the shared library bits (although I understand 
it's usefulness from a distro perspective) and more interested in being 
able to build out a lot of these things.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori