[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/4] fix/add CONFIG_* options for VMWare device emulation

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 02/01/2011 07:10 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> One way to solve this which would preserve the device model would be
> to add stub devices. For example, hw/vmmouse-stub.c would be:
> void *vmmouse_init(void *m)
> {
>      return NULL;
> }

This is the wrong direction, unless you can somehow automatically 
generate the stub file.

The only other solution I can think of is weak symbols.  There are 
subtle differences between Windows and Linux weak symbols, but luckily 
we do not care about it.  See 
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-04/msg00281.html

Paolo