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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 04:55:09PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 04:37:59PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 04:22:47PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:49:19AM -0500, Don Dutile wrote:
> > > > fyi: libexec has been critical to virtualization for quite some time...
> > 
> > I think Don is referring to the helper binaries that go into
> > /usr/libexec:
> > 
> > $ rpm -ql qemu-common | grep libexec
> > /usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper
> > $ rpm -ql libvirt-daemon | grep libexec
> > /usr/libexec/libvirt_iohelper
> > /usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc
> > /usr/libexec/libvirt_parthelper
> 
> 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).

Not sure about the other two libvirt_* files.  It appears that
libvirtd simply runs those.

Rich.

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