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Re: [Qemu-devel] plugins
From: |
Lionel Ulmer |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] plugins |
Date: |
Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:25:59 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
> With a plugin system (all it takes is 2 files: an text/XML file which
> contains the info on this plugin, and a .so file which is the plugin
> itself) both closed source and open source developers can add lots of
> hardware to QEMU which can be used for driver development on Linux and
> on Windows (as well other guest OS's) without having the real hardware.
>From what I know, QEMU is GPL'ed (only libqemu is LGPL'ed). So 'closed
source' developers can use this plug-in mechanism ... only if they do not
release their .so :-)
Lionel
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- OT: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, Karel Gardas, 2004/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, Jean-Michel POURE, 2004/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, Brad Watson, 2004/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, Jan Dittmer, 2004/07/08
- [Qemu-devel] (Before) RFC for new features, Hetz Ben Hamo, 2004/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] plugins, Gianni Tedesco, 2004/07/09
[Qemu-devel] Re: RFC for new features, Emmanuel Charpentier, 2004/07/09