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The driver modules all use symbols which are defined in libvirt.so. Thus for loading of modules to work, the binary that libvirt.so is linked to must export its symbols back to modules. If the libvirt.so itself is dlopen()d then the RTLD_GLOBAL flag must be set. Unfortunately few, if any, programming languages use the RTLD_GLOBAL flag when loading modules :-( This means is it not practical to use driver modules for any libvirt client side drivers (OpenVZ, VMWare, Hyper-V, Remote client, test). This patch changes the build process so only server side drivers are built as modules (Xen, QEMU, LXC, UML) * daemon/libvirtd.c: Add missing load of 'interface' driver * src/Makefile.am: Only build server side drivers as modules * src/libvirt.c: Don't load any driver modules Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
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>