Re: [Qemu-devel] Modular qemu?

[Thiemo Seufer]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Plugins are not the solution though.
>
> What about non-plugin dlopen()?  Right now building qemu (with all  
> options enabled) requires a large amount of libraries, hence a lot of  
> dependencies.  For example, a server setup that will only be used with  
> -vnc needs to have SDL installed.  This will only get worse with opengl  
> support.
>
> I'm thinking of something similar to linux kernel modules: no backward  
> compatible ABI, simply load-on-demand functionality that can be packaged  
> separately to reduce dependencies.  With kvm integrated, we could even  
> make the cpu emulator an optional loadable module.

What problem would this solve?


Thiemo