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Introduce a set sub-RPMs, one per hypervisor, which can be used as dependency targets by applications wishing to pull in the full stack of packages required for a specific hypervisor. This avoids the application needing to know what the hypervisor specific package set is. ie, applications should not need to know that using the libvirt Xen hypervisor requires the 'xen' RPM - libvirt should take care of that knowledge. All the application wants is 'libvirt-daemon-xen' There are 5 sub-RPMs: libvirt-daemon-qemu - non-native TCG based emulators libvirt-daemon-kvm - native KVM hypervisor libvirt-daemon-uml - User Mode linux libvirt-daemon-xen - Xen, either via XenD or libxl libvirt-daemon-lxc - Linux native containers When driver modules get turned on, these sub-RPMs will also gain dependencies on the appropriate driver module .so files
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>