Why does so much virt stuff depend on glusterfs?

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Jul 24 09:17:14 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 09:46:30PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 03:00:46PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Richard W.M. Jones (rjones at redhat.com) said: 
> > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 06:15:32PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > > However for some reason I can't quite understand, libvirt-daemon
> > > > depends on 'qemu'.  That may be a bug?
> > > 
> > > I meant to write: "'libvirt-daemon-qemu' depends on 'qemu'".
> > 
> > Isn't it simplest for that to depend on a virtual 'qemu-system', which is
> > provided by qemu-kvm on KVM arches, and qemu-system-XYZ on non-KVM arches?
> 
> Right, which is why I said this may be a bug.  Dan Berrange (CC'd on
> this subthread) will know.

The libvirt-daemon-qemu package is intended to pull in the QEMU emulators.
If you only want to pull in KVM, then you should depend on the separate
libvirt-daemon-kvm package instead.

Daniel
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