[libvirt] [PATCH 4/8] Introduce per-hypervisor virtual RPMs

[Eric Blake]

On 04/03/2012 06:48 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> 
> Introduce a set sub-RPMs, one per hypervisor, which can be used
> as dependancy targets by applications wishing to pull in the

s/dependancy/dependency/

> full stack of packages required for a specific hypervisor. This
> avoids the application needing to know what the hypervisor specific
> package set is.
> 
> ie, applications should not need to know that using the libvirt
> Xen hypervisor requires the 'xen' RPM - libvirt should take care
> of that knowledge. All the application wants is 'libvirt-daemon-xen'

As I mentioned on the other thread, I'm in favor of this, but it sounded
like DV was a bit worried.  Anyone else want to chime in?

> 
> There are 5 sub-RPMs:
> 
>   libvirt-daemon-qemu - non-native TCG based emulators
>   libvirt-daemon-kvm  - native KVM hypervisor
>   libvirt-daemon-uml  - User Mode linux
>   libvirt-daemon-xen  - Xen, either via XenD or libxl
>   libvirt-daemon-lxc  - Linux native containers
> 
> When driver modules get turned on, these sub-RPMs will also
> gain dependancies on the appropriate driver module .so files

s/dependancies/dependencies/

ACK for the technical aspect, if you don't get outvoted on the design.

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Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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