Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
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Laine Stump 009464902a util: make virSocketAddrIPv4 a union
virSocketAddrIPv4 is a type used only internally by
virsocketaddr.c. It is defined to be a character array, which leads to
multiple occurences of extra bit fiddling and byte swapping for no
good reason (except to confuse).

An IPv4 address is really just a uint32_t with the bytes in network
order, which is exactly the type of the s_addr member of the
sockaddr_in that is a part of the publicly consumed struct
virSocketAddr, and that we are copying in and out of a
virSocketAddrIPv4. Sometimes it's simpler to just treat it as a
network-order uint32_t, so let's make our virSocketAddrIPv4 a union
that has both an unsigned char bytes[4] (for the times when we need to
look one byte at a time) and a uint32_t val (for the times when it's
simpler to treat it as a single value).

For now we just change all the uses from, e.g. x[i] to x.bytes[y];
an upcoming patch will simplify some of the code to remove loops by
using x.val instead of x.bytes when appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
2024-09-21 14:39:05 -04:00
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Libvirt API for virtualization

Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.

For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.

Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.

Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:

https://libvirt.org

License

The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General Public License, version 2.0 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.

Installation

Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:

https://libvirt.org/compiling.html

Contributing

The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:

https://libvirt.org/contribute.html

Contact

The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:

Further details on contacting the project are available on the website:

https://libvirt.org/contact.html