Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] HLFS driver for QEMU

[harryxiyou <harryxiyou@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Stefan,

> Is HLFS making releases that distros can package?  I don't see packages
> in Debian or Fedora.

We will make packages for Debian and Fedora.

>
> Block drivers in qemu.git should have active and sustainable communities
> behind them.

Cloudxy is an active and sustainable community, which HLFS is just a
sub-project of it.

>  For example, if this is a research project where the team
> will move on within a year, then it may not be appropriate to merge the
> code into QEMU.

HLFS have been developed for two years.

> Can you share some background on the HLFS community and
> where the project is heading?

See http://code.google.com/p/cloudxy/ (Our Main Website) for
details (in Chinese).
See http://code.google.com/p/cloudxy/wiki/WHAT_IS_CLOUDXY for
details.(in English)

>
>> ---
>>  block/Makefile.objs |    2 +-
>>  block/hlfs.c        |  515 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  configure           |   51 +++++
>>  3 files changed, 567 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>  create mode 100644 block/hlfs.c
>>
>> diff --git a/block/Makefile.objs b/block/Makefile.objs
>> index c067f38..723c7a5 100644
>> --- a/block/Makefile.objs
>> +++ b/block/Makefile.objs
>> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ block-obj-$(CONFIG_POSIX) += raw-posix.o
>>  block-obj-$(CONFIG_LINUX_AIO) += linux-aio.o
>>
>>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_POSIX),y)
>> -block-obj-y += nbd.o sheepdog.o
>> +block-obj-y += nbd.o sheepdog.o hlfs.o
>
> Missing CONFIG_HLFS to compile out hlfs.o.

I changed this according to sheepdog. I cannot see any CONFIG_SHEEPDOG.

[...]
>
>> +    echo "999 CLIBS is $CLIBS\n"
>> +    echo "999 CFLAGS is $CFLAGS\n"
>
> Debugging?

I will fix these problems you said. Thanks very much.



-- 
Thanks
Harry Wei