There have been reports [1, 2] where folks have had issues building VirtFS and the virtio backend on older systems. I personally saw problems due to the use of features (struct statfs f_frsize field, fdopendir, O_NOATIME) in this code that are not available on much older Linux systems. Given, the system I ran into this on is ancient (RH8 sysroot), but I still need to build QEMU on it nonetheless.
This patch adds a new configure option for disabling the building of VirtFS all together. Tested by building with and without --disable-virtfs on older (RH8 sysroot) and newer systems (x64 Fedora 16). [1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-12/msg00171.html [2] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-02/msg00404.html Meador Inge (1): ./configure: add option for disabling VirtFS Makefile | 4 ++++ configure | 16 +++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 1.7.7.6
