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Re: [Qemu-devel] Loadable block drivers?
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Lindsay Mathieson |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Loadable block drivers? |
Date: |
Tue, 3 Apr 2018 13:17:05 +1000 |
On 3 April 2018 at 13:11, Fam Zheng <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 04/03 12:59, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> > Hi all, was looking at developing a block driver for qemu - have examined
> > the drivers at:
> >
> > https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/master/block
> >
> > And it seems straightforward enough.
> >
> > One thing that is unclear - all the drivers appear to be compiled
> directly
> > into qemu. Is there no way to load them dynamically as .so modules?
>
> './configure --enable-modules' will enable building block drivers as .so
> objects, and they are loaded dynamically. These are in-tree .so modules;
> out-of-tree modules like in Linux kernel are intentionally forbidden.
>
> Fam
>
Rats, I take it that means I can't develop a testing block module and load
it with an pre-existing qemu install.
thanks.
--
Lindsay
- [Qemu-devel] Loadable block drivers?, Lindsay Mathieson, 2018/04/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Loadable block drivers?, Fam Zheng, 2018/04/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Loadable block drivers?,
Lindsay Mathieson <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Loadable block drivers?, Fam Zheng, 2018/04/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Loadable block drivers?, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2018/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Loadable block drivers?, Lindsay Mathieson, 2018/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Loadable block drivers?, Fam Zheng, 2018/04/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Loadable block drivers?, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2018/04/09