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To: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, ehabkost@redhat.com, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, dlaor@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 06/25/2009 10:11 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>
>   Yes, having a library was suggested by Amit some months ago. The
> problem is that it has various issues wrt maintainability.
>
>   For example, libvirt is able to run two instances of different
> versions of qemu at the same time. How to handle this if you
> update libmonitor.so?
>    

You could use dlopen().  The problem with a library is that it assumes 
everyone is still trapped in C, which is not the case.

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