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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Andrea Bolognani 13f5b223c9 tests: Add getuid() to virnetdevbandwidthmock
When only geteuid() is mocked, the test crashes on Debian 10.

  Fatal: failed to reset uid: No such file or directory

  Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
  __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:50
  50      ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c: No such file or directory.
  (gdb) t a a bt

  Thread 1 (Thread 0x7ffff3b3e080 (LWP 12003)):
  #0  __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:50
  #1  0x00007ffff7798535 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:79
  #2  0x00007ffff485ca20 in _gcry_logv (level=level@entry=40, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7ffff4929126 "failed to reset uid: %s\n", arg_ptr=arg_ptr@entry=0x7fffffffe4a0) at ../../src/misc.c:142
  #3  0x00007ffff485cd61 in _gcry_log_fatal (fmt=fmt@entry=0x7ffff4929126 "failed to reset uid: %s\n") at ../../src/misc.c:218
  #4  0x00007ffff48639d1 in lock_pool_pages (n=<optimized out>, p=<optimized out>) at ../../src/secmem.c:340
  #5  _gcry_secmem_init_internal (n=<optimized out>) at ../../src/secmem.c:563
  #6  0x00007ffff4863d78 in _gcry_secmem_init (n=4096) at ../../src/secmem.c:581
  #7  0x00007ffff485e4e6 in _gcry_vcontrol (cmd=<optimized out>, arg_ptr=arg_ptr@entry=0x7fffffffe5e0) at ../../src/global.c:506
  #8  0x00007ffff485a789 in gcry_control (cmd=cmd@entry=GCRYCTL_INIT_SECMEM) at ../../src/visibility.c:79
  #9  0x00007ffff71af10f in ssh_crypto_init () at ./src/libgcrypt.c:621
  #10 0x00007ffff7193796 in _ssh_init (constructor=constructor@entry=1) at ./src/init.c:79
  #11 0x00007ffff71834de in libssh_constructor () at ./src/init.c:116
  #12 0x00007ffff7fe437a in call_init (l=<optimized out>, argc=argc@entry=1, argv=argv@entry=0x7fffffffe778, env=env@entry=0x7fffffffe788) at dl-init.c:72
  #13 0x00007ffff7fe4476 in call_init (env=0x7fffffffe788, argv=0x7fffffffe778, argc=1, l=<optimized out>) at dl-init.c:30
  #14 _dl_init (main_map=0x7ffff7ffe190, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe778, env=0x7fffffffe788) at dl-init.c:119
  #15 0x00007ffff7fd60ca in _dl_start_user () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
  #16 0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
  #17 0x00007fffffffea26 in ?? ()
  #18 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-07-09 15:01:54 +02:00
.ctags.d maint: Add support for .ctags.d 2019-05-31 17:54:28 +02:00
.gnulib@8089c00979 maint: update gnulib for syntax-check on BSD 2019-01-07 13:54:07 -06:00
build-aux syntax check: update header guard check 2019-06-20 09:01:07 +02:00
docs news: Mention drop of xen sxpr support 2019-07-09 10:27:20 +02:00
examples examples: Group all C programs together 2019-06-03 17:27:43 +02:00
gnulib maint: Fix VPATH build 2019-01-07 21:56:16 -06:00
include/libvirt Revert "error: Add VIR_ERR_DEPRECATED error code" 2019-06-27 14:47:10 +01:00
m4 m4: Fix check for yajl.pc 2019-07-08 12:01:27 +02:00
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src util: Drop virsexpr module 2019-07-09 10:27:20 +02:00
tests tests: Add getuid() to virnetdevbandwidthmock 2019-07-09 15:01:54 +02:00
tools virsh: support block device storage type in virshParseSnapshotDiskspec 2019-07-09 12:24:40 +02:00
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Build Status CII Best Practices

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 2.1 (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