Re: [Qemu-devel] Modular qemu?

[Avi Kivity]

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.

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