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There are a number of flaws with our packaging of the libvirtd daemon: - Installing 'libvirt' does not install 'qemu-kvm' or 'xen' etc which are required to actually run the hypervisor in question - Installing 'libvirt' pulls in the default configuration files which may not be wanted & cause problems if installed inside a guest - It is not possible to explicitly required all the peices required to manage a specific hypervisor This change takes the 'libvirt' RPM and and changes it thus - libvirt: just a virtual package with dep on libvirt-daemon, libvirt-daemon-config-network & libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter - libvirt-daemon: the libvirt daemon and related pieces - libvirt-daemon-config-network: the default network config - libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter: the network filter configs - libvirt-docs: the website HTML We then introduce some more virtual (empty) packages - libvirt-daemon-qemu: Deps on libvirt-daemon & 'qemu' - libvirt-daemon-kvm: Deps on libvirt-daemon & 'qemu-kvm' - libvirt-daemon-lxc: Deps on libvirt-daemon - libvirt-daemon-uml: Deps on libvirt-daemon - libvirt-daemon-xen: Deps on libvirt-daemon & 'xen' - libvirt-qemu: Deps on libvirt-daemon-qemu & libvirt-daemon-config-{network,nwfilter} - libvirt-kvm: Deps on libvirt-daemon-kvm & libvirt-daemon-config-{network,nwfilter} - libvirt-lxc: Deps on libvirt-daemon-lxc & libvirt-daemon-config-{network,nwfilter} - libvirt-uml: Deps on libvirt-daemon-uml & libvirt-daemon-config-{network,nwfilter} - libvirt-xen: Deps on libvirt-daemon-xen & libvirt-daemon-config-network My intent in the future is to turn on the driver modules by default, at which time 'libvirt-daemon' will cease to include any specific drivers, instead we'll get libvirt-daemon-driver-XXXX packages for each driver. The libvirt-daemon-XXX packages will then pull in each driver that they require. It is recommended that applications required a locally installed libvirtd daemon, use either 'Requires: libvirt-daemon-XXXX' or 'Requires: libvirt-XXX' and *not* "Requires: libvirt-daemon" or 'Requires: libvirt' * libvirt.spec.in: Refactor RPMs * docs/packaging.html.in, docs/sitemap.html.in: Document new RPM split rationale
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed. Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
Description
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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