Il lun 1 feb 2021, 22:15 Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <waine...@redhat.com> ha scritto:
> Not too long ago (QEMU 5.0) it was possible to configure with > --disable-tools > and still have virtiofsd built. With the recent port of the build system to > Meson, it is now built together with the tools though. > > The Kata Containers [1] project build QEMU with --disable-tools to > decrease the > attack surface ---enable-tools only adds separate executables, therefore it can't add to the attack surface of the emulators. So this is misleading. That said, it does make sense to let --enable-virtiofsd override --disable-tools, and the same in the other direction too. Paolo Side note: in a private chat with Stefan Hajnoczi he come up with the idea > that perhaps --disable-tools could be like --without-default-features where > one can add back on feature-by-feature basis. This is outside the scope of > this > series but I thought in sharing because IMHO it is deserves a discussion. > [1] https://katacontainers.io > > Wainer dos Santos Moschetta (1): > virtiofsd: Allow to build it without the tools > > tools/meson.build | 7 +++++-- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.29.2 > >
