libvirt/src
Eric Blake 0de75e855b managedsave: prohibit use on transient domains
Transient domains reject attempts to set autostart, and using
virDomainCreate to restart a domain only works on persistent
domains.  Therefore, managed save makes no sense on transient
domains, and should be rejected up front rather than creating
an otherwise unrecoverable managed save file.

Besides, transient domains imply that a lot more management is
being done by the upper layer; this includes the assumption
that the upper layer is okay managing the saved state file
created by virDomainSave, and does not need to use managed save.

* src/libvirt.c: Document that transient domains are incompatible
with managed save.
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainManagedSave): Enforce it.
* src/libxl/libxl_driver.c (libxlDomainManagedSave): Likewise.
2011-08-10 21:50:02 -06:00
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conf build: silence coverity false positives 2011-08-02 16:39:01 -06:00
cpu libvirt,logging: cleanup VIR_XXX0() 2011-05-11 12:41:14 -06:00
esx destroy: Implement internal API for ESX driver 2011-07-21 20:41:27 +02:00
interface libvirt: do not mix internal flags into public API 2011-07-18 13:50:51 -06:00
libxl managedsave: prohibit use on transient domains 2011-08-10 21:50:02 -06:00
locking build: rename files.h to virfile.h 2011-07-21 10:34:51 -06:00
lxc Allow use of file images for LXC container filesystems 2011-08-08 11:38:09 +01:00
network network: eliminate lag in updating dnsmasq hosts files 2011-08-04 13:25:51 -04:00
node_device build: rename files.h to virfile.h 2011-07-21 10:34:51 -06:00
nwfilter util: make interface.c functions consistently return < 0 on error 2011-07-22 09:27:07 -04:00
openvz build: silence coverity false positives 2011-08-02 16:39:01 -06:00
phyp destroy: Implement internal API for phyp driver 2011-07-21 20:41:27 +02:00
qemu managedsave: prohibit use on transient domains 2011-08-10 21:50:02 -06:00
remote rpc: Fix memory leak in remoteDomainSet*Parameters functions 2011-07-27 21:09:23 +02:00
rpc rpc:fix sasl session relocking intead of unlocking it 2011-08-04 21:27:52 +08:00
secret build: rename files.h to virfile.h 2011-07-21 10:34:51 -06:00
security build: rename files.h to virfile.h 2011-07-21 10:34:51 -06:00
storage fdstream: drop delete argument 2011-08-02 14:53:43 -06:00
test vcpu: teach getVcpusFlags about current 2011-07-25 15:45:10 -06:00
uml fdstream: drop delete argument 2011-08-02 14:53:43 -06:00
util util: plug memory leak 2011-08-02 16:39:02 -06:00
vbox fdstream: drop delete argument 2011-08-02 14:53:43 -06:00
vmware destroy: Implement internal API for vmware driver 2011-07-21 20:41:27 +02:00
vmx conf: add <listen> subelement to domain <graphics> element 2011-07-28 13:46:39 -04:00
xen fdstream: drop delete argument 2011-08-02 14:53:43 -06:00
xenapi xenapi: Fix double-freeing the session in xenapiClose 2011-07-22 15:56:42 +02:00
xenxs conf: add <listen> subelement to domain <graphics> element 2011-07-28 13:46:39 -04:00
.gitignore util: add missing export 2010-10-12 09:42:18 -06:00
datatypes.c virStorageVol: avoid PATH_MAX-sized array 2011-06-22 17:13:58 -06:00
datatypes.h conf: prefer unsigned flags 2011-07-13 17:05:10 -06:00
driver.c libvirt: do not mix internal flags into public API 2011-07-18 13:50:51 -06:00
driver.h driver.h: Fix two driver documentation mistakes 2011-07-25 13:50:32 +08:00
fdstream.c fdstream: drop delete argument 2011-08-02 14:53:43 -06:00
fdstream.h fdstream: drop delete argument 2011-08-02 14:53:43 -06:00
gnutls_1_0_compat.h Fix detection of GnuTLS 1.x.y 2011-08-03 19:22:29 +02:00
internal.h maint: fix typos on guaranteed 2011-07-20 16:53:31 -06:00
libvirt_bridge.syms Replace brSetInetAddress/brSetInetNetmask with brAddInetAddress 2010-12-23 15:53:26 -05:00
libvirt_daemon.syms Export conditional state driver symbols only when they are defined 2010-03-23 02:05:18 +01:00
libvirt_driver_modules.syms
libvirt_internal.h qemu: Migration job on source daemon 2011-07-27 08:45:10 -06:00
libvirt_linux.syms
libvirt_macvtap.syms Fix undefined symbol errors when macvtap support is disabled 2010-12-01 17:08:08 +01:00
libvirt_network.syms network: provide internal API to return IP of a network 2011-07-25 13:48:55 +08:00
libvirt_nwfilter.syms Some NWFilter symbols are conditional and have to be exported conditional 2010-04-23 19:51:00 +02:00
libvirt_private.syms save: generate idempotent inactive xml for running domain 2011-07-29 16:09:08 -06:00
libvirt_public.syms Add new API virDomainBlockPull* to headers 2011-07-22 13:18:06 +08:00
libvirt_qemu.syms Define a QEMU specific API to attach to a running QEMU process 2011-07-12 15:39:03 +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: print flags in hex during debug 2011-07-13 07:47:45 -06:00
libvirt.c managedsave: prohibit use on transient domains 2011-08-10 21:50:02 -06:00
Makefile.am build: fix include path for cygwin 2011-07-29 13:31:53 -06:00
nodeinfo.c build: rename files.h to virfile.h 2011-07-21 10:34:51 -06:00
nodeinfo.h build: avoid ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED in headers 2011-07-14 07:51:30 -06:00
qemu_protocol-structs build: also track RPC on-wire enum values 2011-07-15 17:48:09 -06:00
README Remove the Open Nebula driver 2011-03-28 14:09:11 +01:00
remote_protocol-structs Asynchronous event for BlockJob completion 2011-07-22 13:57:42 +08:00
virnetprotocol-structs build: also track RPC on-wire enum values 2011-07-15 17:48:09 -06:00

       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
 * 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, 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