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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Daniel P. Berrange 075bb5f1aa Move libvirtd event loop into background thread
The virStateInitialize() call for starting up stateful drivers
may require that the event loop is running already. This it is
neccessary to start the event loop before this call. At the
same time, network clients must not be processed until afte
virStateInitialize has completed.

The qemudListenUnix() and remoteListenTCP() methods must
therefore not register file handle watches, merely open the
network sockets & listen() on them. This means clients can
connected and are queued, pending completion of initialization

The qemudRunLoop() method is moved into a background thread
that is started early to allow access to the event loop during
driver initialization. The main process thread leader pretty
much does nothing once the daemon is running, merely waits
for the event loop thread to quit

* daemon/libvirtd.c, daemon/libvirtd.h: Move event loop into
  a background thread
* daemon/THREADING.txt: Rewrite docs to better reflect reality
2009-11-03 14:45:43 -05:00
.gnulib@28db629d4f build: update gnulib submodule to latest 2009-09-09 12:11:29 +02:00
build-aux generate ChangeLog from git logs into distribution tarball 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
daemon Move libvirtd event loop into background thread 2009-11-03 14:45:43 -05:00
docs Add support for an external TFTP boot server 2009-10-28 15:57:49 +01:00
examples Rewrite example domain events programm for python 2009-10-09 13:05:10 +01:00
include Finer grained migration control 2009-10-14 11:35:51 +02:00
m4 remove all .cvsignore files 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
po Fixing ca.po 2009-10-14 10:32:53 +02:00
proxy Introduce virStrncpy. 2009-09-22 20:10:00 +02:00
python give up python interpreter lock before calling cb 2009-11-03 18:42:16 +01:00
src Allow NULL mac address in virGetInterface 2009-11-03 16:42:53 +01:00
tests Annotate many methods with ATTRIBUTE_RETURN_CHECK & fix problems 2009-11-02 11:09:03 -05:00
tools Fix virsh.c compilation warning 2009-10-21 12:59:43 +02:00
.gitignore Remove some auto-generated files 2009-10-09 13:01:22 +01:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.hgignore Add qemuhelptest to .*ignore files 2009-06-16 14:06:48 +00:00
.x-sc_avoid_ctype_macros exempt gnulib from ctype-macros prohibition 2008-10-28 17:36:31 +00:00
.x-sc_avoid_if_before_free avoid a "make syntax-check" failure 2009-07-09 20:00:37 +02:00
.x-sc_avoid_write Tunnelled migration. 2009-10-02 11:43:26 +02:00
.x-sc_m4_quote_check syntax-check: enable more checks 2009-02-03 13:08:36 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_asprintf add .x-sc_prohibit_asprintf 2008-12-23 13:40:42 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_gethostby Various syntax-check fixes. 2009-10-26 10:34:05 +01:00
.x-sc_prohibit_gethostname Add a new syntax-check rule for gethostname. 2009-10-26 10:34:27 +01:00
.x-sc_prohibit_have_config_h maint: sync from coreutils 2009-01-29 18:06:19 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_HAVE_MBRTOWC maint: sync from coreutils 2009-01-29 18:06:19 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_nonreentrant Tighten up nonreentrant syntax-check. 2009-10-26 10:33:42 +01:00
.x-sc_prohibit_strcmp exempt gnulib/ from "make syntax-check" strcmp prohibition 2008-05-14 21:18:27 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_strcmp_and_strncmp Various syntax-check fixes. 2009-10-26 10:34:05 +01:00
.x-sc_prohibit_strncpy Various syntax-check fixes. 2009-10-26 10:34:05 +01:00
.x-sc_prohibit_VIR_ERR_NO_MEMORY Various syntax-check fixes. 2009-10-26 10:34:05 +01:00
.x-sc_require_config_h Various syntax-check fixes. 2009-10-26 10:34:05 +01:00
.x-sc_require_config_h_first Misc syntax-check fixes 2009-09-21 14:41:47 +01:00
.x-sc_trailing_blank build: exempt *.ico files from the trailing blank check 2008-10-16 13:28:07 +00:00
acinclude.m4 remove all trailing blank lines 2009-07-16 15:06:42 +02:00
AUTHORS Fix cdub's surname spelling 2009-09-24 14:50:51 +01:00
autobuild.sh Enable ESX driver build on Mingw32 2009-07-31 16:15:51 +01:00
autogen.sh build: automatically rerun ./bootstrap when needed 2009-07-10 13:39:28 +02:00
bootstrap Local file implementation of secret driver API 2009-09-11 14:54:46 +01:00
cfg.mk Add a new syntax-check rule for gethostname. 2009-10-26 10:34:27 +01:00
ChangeLog-old generate ChangeLog from git logs into distribution tarball 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
configure.in Fix --with-init-script configure option 2009-11-02 17:57:05 +01:00
COPYING.LIB remove all trailing blank lines 2009-07-16 15:06:42 +02:00
HACKING tests: Centralize VIR_TEST_DEBUG lookup, and document it 2009-10-20 14:17:34 -04:00
libvirt.pc.in * libvirt.pc.in: applied patch from Daniel Berrange to fix --cflags 2006-03-24 13:18:12 +00:00
libvirt.spec.in libvirt-devel should only require libvirt-client 2009-10-28 17:23:34 +00:00
Makefile.am Add a new syntax-check rule for gethostname. 2009-10-26 10:34:27 +01:00
Makefile.nonreentrant syntax-check: enable prohibit_nonreentrant 2009-02-05 16:28:41 +00:00
mingw32-libvirt.spec.in Make pki_check.sh into an installed & supported tool 2009-09-21 14:41:46 +01:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
README-hacking build: automatically rerun ./bootstrap when needed 2009-07-10 13:39:28 +02:00
TODO Remove all trailing blanks; turn on the rule to detect them. 2008-02-05 19:27:37 +00:00

         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>