On Tue, 04/03 13:17, Lindsay Mathieson wrote: > On 3 April 2018 at 13:11, Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 04/03 12:59, Lindsay Mathieson wrote: > > > Hi all, was looking at developing a block driver for qemu - have examined > > > the drivers at: > > > > > > https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/master/block > > > > > > And it seems straightforward enough. > > > > > > One thing that is unclear - all the drivers appear to be compiled > > directly > > > into qemu. Is there no way to load them dynamically as .so modules? > > > > './configure --enable-modules' will enable building block drivers as .so > > objects, and they are loaded dynamically. These are in-tree .so modules; > > out-of-tree modules like in Linux kernel are intentionally forbidden. > > > > Fam > > > > > > Rats, I take it that means I can't develop a testing block module and load > it with an pre-existing qemu install.
No, that's not possible. Fam