Re: [Qemu-devel] Loadable block drivers?

[Lindsay Mathieson]

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