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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:48:53 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Spice project is now open
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To: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Yaniv Kamay <ykamay@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Izik Eidus wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:51:53 -0600
> Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>
>   
>> libc is not a plugin.  It implements very well defined behaviors that 
>> have well understood behaviors.  Also, glibc generally does not crash 
>> :-)  I would not want a user to replace glibc with a different libc.
>>     
>
> I think it problomatic to say "I dont want to use this library" beacuse
> "Librarys can crush", do you have any reason to say it on spice? did
> you look on the code and saw huge ugly bugs?
>   

Libraries are fine.  But libraries are not plugins.

It's the difference between qemu writing directly to libspice verses 
having a libspice-vdi that implements the VDI plugin interface and then 
a mechanism in qemu to load arbitrary libraries that implement the VDI 
interface.

If I understand correctly, VDI is a plugin interface.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori