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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Michal Privoznik 13284a6b83 storage_driver: Protect pool def during startup and build
In near future the storage pool object lock will be released
during startPool and buildPool callback (in some backends). But
this means that another thread may acquire the pool object lock
and change its definition rendering the former thread access not
only stale definition but also access freed memory
(virStoragePoolObjAssignDef() will free old def when setting a
new one).

One way out of this would be to have the pool appear as active
because our code deals with obj->def and obj->newdef just fine.
But we can't declare a pool as active if it's not started or
still building up. Therefore, have a boolean flag that is very
similar and forces virStoragePoolObjAssignDef() to store new
definition in obj->newdef even for an inactive pool. In turn, we
have to move the definition to correct place when unsetting the
flag. But that's as easy as calling
virStoragePoolUpdateInactive().

Technically speaking, change made to
storageDriverAutostartCallback() is not needed because until
storage driver is initialized no storage API can run therefore
there can't be anyone wanting to change the pool's definition.
But I'm doing the change there for consistency anyways.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2019-08-23 09:32:26 +02:00
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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:

https://libvirt.org

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

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:

Further details on contacting the project are available on the website:

https://libvirt.org/contact.html