Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Check availability of uuid header / lib

[Christoph Egger]

On Thursday 01 October 2009 20:13:25 Stefan Weil wrote:
> Christoph Egger schrieb:
> > On Thursday 23 July 2009 22:27:54 Stefan Weil wrote:
> >> The Universally Unique Identifier library will be used
> >> for the new vdi block driver and maybe other parts of QEMU.
> >
> > This is very Linux specific.
> > On NetBSD, the header is in <sys/uuid.h> and part of libc.
> > The API implements DCE 1.1 RPC specification which is
> > very different from Linux uuid.
> >
> > Christoph
>
> The Linux implementation claims to conform to OSF DCE 1.1,
> see manpages of libuuid.
>
> Do you think that we need a QEMU wrapper to handle different
> implementations?

Yes. This has already been abstracted in Xen's blktap2 implementation.
You can adapt it to QEMU.

Christoph


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