[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#819298: libvirt: please enable qemu and policykit-1 on !linux archs

[Pino Toscano]

Source: libvirt
Version: 1.3.1-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hi,

with the current build configuration of libvirt, support for qemu and
policykit-1 are disabled on non-Linux architectures; this means that:
- vmware is the only built hypervisor
- the polkit authentication type does not work, although manually
  editing libvirtd.conf works

Since qemu is available at least on kFreeBSD (the only non-Linux
architecture where libvirt build so far), and policykit-1 works also
on non-Linux architectures, attached there is a patch to unconditionally
enable both on any OS.  I did not find any trace why they were disabled
in the first place (maybe: missing qemu, broken policykit-1 some time
in the past?), and I'd say that issue in each should be fixed in them,
instead of disabling the related features in libvirt.

Thanks,
-- 
Pino
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