Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-12-19)

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 05:13:17PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 05:09:00PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 04:55:09PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > Is the path user visible in any way?
> > 
> > If used, /usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper is encoded directly in the
> > libvirt XML.  So is libvirt_lxc.  (So is /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm, on
> > RHEL).
> 
> Are those expected to be portable between systems? If not, it's not a 
> problem. If so, you probably want to rethink the use of libexec.

There's no requirement for portability, XML files are considered to be
specific to the host they're installed on, so its not a portability
problem.

Contrary to what Don says earlier in the thread, I think the choice of
lib vs libexec has essentially zero impact on virtualization. It is just
a choice distro packagers make

Daniel
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