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If driver modules are enabled turn storage driver backends into dynamically loadable objects. This will allow greater modularity for binary distributions, where heavyweight dependencies as rbd and gluster can be avoided by selecting only a subset of drivers if the rest is not necessary. The storage modules are installed into 'LIBDIR/libvirt/storage-backend/' and users can override the location by using 'LIBVIRT_STORAGE_BACKEND_DIR' environment variable. rpm based distros will at this point install all the backends when libvirt-daemon-driver-storage package is installed.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>