On 3 April 2018 at 13:11, Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> 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
