[Vm-dev] Question about primitives

[David T. Lewis]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:17:53AM +0100, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>  
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:59 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> >
> > The minimum set of plugins required for a useful VM is:
> >  BalloonEnginePlugin
> >  BitBltSimulation
> >  FilePlugin
> >  SocketPlugin
> > 
> > This produces a VM that can run an image, open the display,
> 
> Thanks Dave!  Suppose I am using a headless image (maybe seaside using RFB),
> can I remove BitBltSimulation or BalloonEnginePlugin too ?

Actually I don't know. Give it a try and see what happens ;)

> There is a difference between this list and Andreas one (cool because those
> are the one Andreas said that can be removed)
> 
> B2DPlugin.c
> LargeIntegers.c
> MiscPrimitivePlugin.c
> ZipPlugin.c
> 
> Eliot said he recommended to have LargeIntegers and ZipPlugin. So, I guess I
> will put them too.

Yes, those are all plugins that you will want to include in your build
for performance reasons, but they are not strictly required.

Dave