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Trying to connect once without a polkit agent will generate an error on the server side which seems too rough given it only serves the purpose of the client (virsh in this case) to figure out that an agent is needed. Thankfully we can just try running the agent. It does not break anything as we are running it with `--fallback`, which makes sure it does not replace an existing agent in case there is one already registered. The second piece of code trying to start the polkit text agent is kept in order to _really_ try out starting the agent (and error out when failing to do so) just in case the agent was not available the first time it was ran. Even though it should not happen it avoids a very rare race condition and really does not add much complexity. Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1945501 Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@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 2.0 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/compiling.html
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: