Re: [Xen-devel] Will Xen 4.3 use upstream QEMU by default ?

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

(apologies for the late reply, I've been away)

On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 13:20 +0000, Alex Bligh wrote:
> 
> --On 22 March 2013 12:04:37 +0000 Stefano Stabellini 
> <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >> Is there a Xen related feature which works fine with
> >> qemu-upstream-unstable.git tree but doesn't work with qemu.git tree?
> >
> > I don't think so. If there are, they are probably just bugs introduced
> > in qemu.git that need to be fixed.
> 
> Last time I tried this the main issue was one completely outside the
> source tree: distro package builders weren't building qemu with xen
> support. If this situation changes (let's hope so), it would be useful
> to build xen without building qemu (i.e. build against installed qemu
> dev libraries etc.); I don't know how feasible this is at the moment.

My personal TODO list contains an item to add a 
        ./configure --with-system-qemu[=PATH]
build option which disables the qemu upstream build and instead uses the
existing distro provided qemu (default /usr/bin/$somethingTBD).

FWIW I would also like to add --disable-qemu-traditional at the same
time.

Of course if someone was to beat me to it I'd be very pleased to review
a patch instead of writing it (especially given that autoconf is
involved ;-))

Ian.


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