The 'conflict' key in a virt_daemon_unit dictionary is not used when
generating systemd service and socket files. The comment associated
with the key claims the default is 'true', and a few build files
needlessly set it to 'true' when defining their virt_daemon_unit.
Remove the 'conflict' key and its use in the affect build files.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
There was one attempt a year ago done by me to drop HAL [1] but it was
never resolved. There was another time when Dan suggested to drop HAL
driver [2] but it was decided to keep it around in case device
assignment will be implemented for FreeBSD and the fact that
virt-manager uses node device driver [3].
I checked git history and code and it doesn't look like bhyve supports
device assignment so from that POV it should not block removing HAL.
The argument about virt-manager is not strong as well because libvirt
installed from FreeBSD packages doesn't have HAL support so it will not
affect these users as well [4].
The only users affected by this change would be the ones compiling
libvirt from GIT on FreeBSD.
I looked into alternatives and there is libudev-devd package on FreeBSD
but unfortunately it doesn't work as it doesn't list any devices when
used with libvirt. It provides libudev APIs using devd.
I also looked into devd directly and it provides some APIs but there are
no APIs for device monitoring and events so that would have to be
somehow done by libvirt.
Main motivation for dropping HAL support is to replace libdbus with GLib
dbus implementation and it cannot be done with HAL driver present in
libvirt because HAL APIs heavily depends on symbols provided by libdbus.
[1] <https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2019-May/msg00203.html>
[2] <https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-April/msg00992.html>
[3] <https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-April/msg00994.html>
[4] <https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/libvirt/Makefile?view=markup>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
