libvirt/src
Matthias Bolte 0821ea6b3c esx: Disable libcurl's use of signals to fix a segfault
libcurl uses a SIGALRM in combination with sigsetjmp/siglongjmp to be
able to abort a DNS lookup when it takes too long. The problem with this
in a multi-threaded application is that the signal handler for SIGALRM
and the call to siglongjmp can be executed on a thread that is different
from the one that initially did the SIGALRM setup and the call to
sigsetjmp. In the reported case this triggered a segfault.

Disable libcurl's use of signals to avoid this situation. This has the
disadvantage of losing the ability to abort synchronous DNS lookups which
might result in libcurl getting stuck in a DNS lookup in the worst case.
When libcurl was build with an asynchronous DNS backend such as c-ares
then there is no problem because the timeout mechanism works without
signals here anyway.

Reported by Benjamin Wang.
2012-10-07 11:18:06 +02:00
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conf Switch over to use cache for building QEMU capabilities 2012-09-27 10:24:52 +01:00
cpu maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
esx esx: Disable libcurl's use of signals to fix a segfault 2012-10-07 11:18:06 +02:00
hyperv hyperv: Fix and improve hypervListAllDomains 2012-09-29 21:06:46 +02:00
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 lxc: Correctly report active cgroups 2012-10-02 10:28:38 +02:00
network network: fix dnsmasq/radvd binding to IPv6 on recent kernels 2012-09-27 11:17:52 -06:00
node_device Change logging category parameter into an enum 2012-09-28 10:39:28 +01:00
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 Use size_t instead of int for virDomainDefPtr struct 2012-09-27 10:11:44 +01:00
phyp maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
qemu build: fix typo in debug message 2012-10-02 06:37:46 -06:00
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 security: also parse user/group names instead of just IDs for DAC labels 2012-10-03 12:15:03 +02:00
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 Change logging category parameter into an enum 2012-09-28 10:39:28 +01:00
util S390: Buffer too small for large CPU numbers. 2012-10-05 09:00:52 -06:00
vbox Use size_t instead of int for virDomainDefPtr struct 2012-09-27 10:11:44 +01:00
vmware maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
vmx Use size_t instead of int for virDomainDefPtr struct 2012-09-27 10:11:44 +01:00
xen Fix compilation of legacy xen driver with Xen 4.2 2012-09-27 10:27:33 -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 Check for private symbols presence as well 2012-10-05 15:04:56 +02:00
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 Change logging category parameter into an enum 2012-09-28 10:39:28 +01:00
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 private.syms: Drop virKillProcess 2012-10-05 13:33:01 +02:00
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 build: fix VPATH builds 2012-10-05 08:59:30 -06:00
nodeinfo.c ARMHF: implement /proc/cpuinfo parsing 2012-09-28 09:25:12 -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