06a61a202c
The libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu RPM has historically had a hard
dependency on the libvirt-daemon-driver-network and
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core packages. This was because the QEMU
driver would directly call into APIs that were part of these drivers.
The dependency to the storage driver was eliminated in
commit 064fec69be4a4673e0df17b007bf781026c3b4b2
Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Jan 25 09:35:46 2018 +0000
storage: move storage file backend framework into util directory
The dependency to the network driver was eliminated in
commit 5b13570ab8b43ec3c590399ec5a7644d91082149
Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Jan 25 09:35:47 2018 +0000
conf: introduce callback registration for domain net device allocation
commit 1438aea4ee4c65be1c7e5096a5549bc0f7581165
Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Jan 25 09:35:48 2018 +0000
conf: expand network device callbacks to cover bandwidth updates
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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:
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 2.1 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER
and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Libvirt uses the GNU Autotools build system, so in general can be built and installed with the usual commands. For example, to build in a manner that is suitable for installing as root, use:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install
While to build & install as an unprivileged user
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ make
$ make install
The libvirt code relies on a large number of 3rd party libraries. These will
be detected during execution of the configure script and a summary printed
which lists any missing (optional) dependencies.
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:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: