Re: [Qemu-devel] converging around a single guest agent

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 11/16/2011 07:39 AM, Dor Laor wrote:
> On 11/16/2011 03:36 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> We have another requirement. We need to embed the source for the guest
>> agent in the QEMU release tarball. This is for GPL compliance since we
>> want to include an ISO (eventually) that contains binaries.
>>
>> This could be as simple as doing a git submodule but it would mean that
>> the guest agent would have to live in its own git repository. Do you all
>> see a problem with this?
>
> Not that I object of placing the code within qemu but I doubt this is a
> requirement, we can settle w/ GPL license for the code.
>
> A requirement of having the agent code reside within qemu is similar to some
> neighbors idea about kvm-tool and the kernel ...

It can just be a submodule (like we do with SeaBIOS, etc.).  The only request is 
that we split guest agent out of vdsm so we don't have to also include all of 
vdsm in the release tarballs.  That would make the guest agent an independent 
git repository and presumably project.

We can't ship a binary without including the source in the release.  The way we 
handle this for things that are external to QEMU (SeaBIOS, OpenBIOS, etc.) are 
git submodules.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori