libvirt/src
Laine Stump 024879e5f6 network: backend for virNetworkUpdate of interface list
<interface> elements are location inside the <forward> element of a
network. There is only one <forward> element in any network, but it
might have many <interface> elements. This element only contains a
single attribute, "dev", which is the name of a network device
(e.g. "eth0").

Since there is only a single attribute, the modify operation isn't
supported for this "section", only add-first, add-last, and
delete. Also, note that it's not permitted to delete an interface from
the list while any guest is using it. We may later decide this is safe
(because removing it from the list really only excludes it from
consideration in future guest allocations of interfaces, but doesn't
affect any guests currently connected), but for now this limitation
seems prudent (of course when changing the persistent config, this
limitation doesn't apply, because the persistent config doesn't
support the concept of "in used").

Another limitation - it is also possible for the interfraces in this
list to be described by PCI address rather than netdev name. However,
I noticed while writing this function that we currently don't support
defining interfaces that way in config - the only method of getting
interfaces specified as <adress type='pci' ..../> instead of
<interface dev='xx'/> is to provide a <pf dev='yy'/> element under
forward, and let the entries in the interface list be automatically
populated with the virtual functions (VF) of the physical function
device given in <pg>.

As with the other virNetworkUpdate section backends, support for this
section is completely contained within a single static function, no
other changes were required, and only functions already called from
elsewhere within the same file are used in the new content for this
existing function (i.e., adding this code should not cause a new build
problem on any platform).
2012-09-26 13:56:52 -04:00
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conf network: backend for virNetworkUpdate of interface list 2012-09-26 13:56:52 -04:00
cpu maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
esx maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
hyperv maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
interface maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
libxl maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
locking locking: Remove README file in favor of internals/locking.html 2012-09-21 12:23:01 +02:00
lxc Remove pointless virLXCProcessMonitorDestroy method 2012-09-26 10:09:57 +01:00
network network: don't "refresh" iptables rules on rule-less networks 2012-09-21 20:10:43 -04:00
node_device maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
nwfilter maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
openvz maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
parallels parallels: don't give null pointers to virBitmapEqual 2012-09-26 08:49:41 -06:00
phyp maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
qemu qemu: wait for SPICE to migrate 2012-09-26 11:42:59 +02:00
remote Fix crash accessing a NULL URI when looking up auth credentials 2012-09-21 10:13:53 +01:00
rpc Simplify some redundant locking while unref'ing objects 2012-09-26 10:09:58 +01:00
secret maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
security Add <seclabel> to character devices. 2012-09-21 13:43:47 +01:00
storage storage: Add timeout for iscsi volume's stable path discovery 2012-09-25 17:09:10 +08:00
test maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
uml Move virProcessKill into virprocess.{h,c} 2012-09-26 10:09:57 +01:00
util Move virProcess{Kill,Abort,TranslateStatus} into virprocess.{c,h} 2012-09-26 10:09:57 +01:00
vbox maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
vmware maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
vmx maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
xen maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
xenapi maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
xenxs maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
check-symfile.pl build: avoid tabs that failed syntax-check 2012-09-06 09:43:46 -06:00
datatypes.c maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
datatypes.h maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
driver.c maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
driver.h network: define new API virNetworkUpdate 2012-09-18 04:21:32 -04:00
dtrace2systemtap.pl maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
fdstream.c maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
fdstream.h maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
gnutls_1_0_compat.h maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
internal.h build: improved handling of <execinfo.h>, BSD <net/if.h> 2012-09-06 10:08:47 -06:00
libvirt_atomic.syms Rewrite virAtomic APIs using GLib's atomic ops code 2012-08-02 11:50:59 +01:00
libvirt_daemon.syms
libvirt_driver_modules.syms Override default driver dir when running from GIT 2012-05-24 13:18:01 +01:00
libvirt_esx.syms Remove libvirt_test.la library 2012-05-24 13:18:00 +01:00
libvirt_internal.h maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
libvirt_libssh2.syms libssh2_transport: add main libssh2 transport implementation 2012-08-21 14:47:09 +02:00
libvirt_linux.syms build: Don't export xenLinuxDomainBlockStats symbol 2012-07-31 11:28:32 +02:00
libvirt_openvz.syms openvz: Add openvzVEGetStringParam 2012-07-20 21:54:35 +02:00
libvirt_private.syms Move virProcess{Kill,Abort,TranslateStatus} into virprocess.{c,h} 2012-09-26 10:09:57 +01:00
libvirt_probes.d Turn virNetClient* into virObject instances 2012-08-07 11:47:55 +01:00
libvirt_public.syms network: define new API virNetworkUpdate 2012-09-18 04:21:32 -04:00
libvirt_qemu_probes.d build: fix binary location in stap files --with-driver-modules 2012-08-10 23:11:26 -04:00
libvirt_qemu.syms qemu-agent: available in 0.10.0 2012-08-23 13:05:52 -06:00
libvirt_sasl.syms Move some SASL symbols into libvirt_sasl.syms 2012-08-15 21:41:42 +01:00
libvirt_vmx.syms esx: Move VMX handling code out of the driver directory 2010-12-21 22:40:17 +01:00
libvirt_xenxs.syms Fix build with --with-driver-modules enabled 2011-05-27 09:51:28 +02:00
libvirt-qemu.c maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
libvirt.c build: avoid older gcc warning 2012-09-26 11:19:34 -06:00
libvirt.conf Allow overriding default URI in config file 2012-03-15 11:20:17 +00:00
Makefile.am Move virProcessKill into virprocess.{h,c} 2012-09-26 10:09:57 +01:00
nodeinfo.c maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
nodeinfo.h maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
qemu_protocol-structs agent: add remote driver support 2012-08-23 19:05:50 +08:00
README hyperv: Add basic documentation 2011-08-26 17:52:55 +02:00
remote_protocol-structs rpc: Fix name of member in remote_protocol-structs 2012-09-18 11:47:12 +02:00
virkeepaliveprotocol-structs build: Properly generate and check virkeepaliveprotocol-structs 2011-11-24 14:44:04 +01:00
virnetprotocol-structs Extend RPC protocol to allow FD passing 2011-10-28 10:27:15 +01:00

       libvirt library code README
       ===========================

The directory provides the bulk of the libvirt codebase. Everything
except for the libvirtd daemon and client tools. The build uses a
large number of libtool convenience libraries - one for each child
directory, and then links them together for the final libvirt.so,
although some bits get linked directly to libvirtd daemon instead.

The files directly in this directory are supporting the public API
entry points & data structures.

There are two core shared modules to be aware of:

 * util/  - a collection of shared APIs that can be used by any
            code. This directory is always in the include path
            for all things built

 * conf/  - APIs for parsing / manipulating all the official XML
            files used by the public API. This directory is only
            in the include path for driver implementation modules

 * vmx/   - VMware VMX config handling (used by esx/ and vmware/)


Then there are the hypervisor implementations:

 * esx/          - VMware ESX and GSX support using vSphere API over SOAP
 * hyperv/       - Microsoft Hyper-V support using WinRM
 * lxc/          - Linux Native Containers
 * openvz/       - OpenVZ containers using cli tools
 * phyp/         - IBM Power Hypervisor using CLI tools over SSH
 * qemu/         - QEMU / KVM using qemu CLI/monitor
 * remote/       - Generic libvirt native RPC client
 * test/         - A "mock" driver for testing
 * uml/          - User Mode Linux
 * vbox/         - Virtual Box using native API
 * vmware/       - VMware Workstation and Player using the vmrun tool
 * xen/          - Xen using hypercalls, XenD SEXPR & XenStore
 * xenapi/       - Xen using libxenserver


Finally some secondary drivers that are shared for several HVs.
Currently these are used by LXC, OpenVZ, QEMU, UML and Xen drivers.
The ESX, Hyper-V, Power Hypervisor, Remote, Test & VirtualBox drivers all
implement the secondary drivers directly

 * cpu/          - CPU feature management
 * interface/    - Host network interface management
 * network/      - Virtual NAT networking
 * nwfilter/     - Network traffic filtering rules
 * node_device/  - Host device enumeration
 * secret/       - Secret management
 * security/     - Mandatory access control drivers
 * storage/      - Storage management drivers


Since both the hypervisor and secondary drivers can be built as
dlopen()able modules, it is *FORBIDDEN* to have build dependencies
between these directories. Drivers are only allowed to depend on
the public API, and the internal APIs in the util/ and conf/
directories