Maxiwell S. Garcia 152c165d34 snapshot: Store both config and live XML in the snapshot domain
The snapshot-create operation of running guests saves the live
XML and uses it to replace the active and inactive domain in
case of revert. So, the config XML is ignored by the snapshot
process. This commit changes it and adds the config XML in the
snapshot XML as the <inactiveDomain> entry.

In case of offline guest, the behavior remains the same and the
config XML is saved in the snapshot XML as <domain> entry. The
behavior of older snapshots of running guests, that don't have
the new <inactiveDomain>, remains the same too. The revert, in
this case, overrides both active and inactive domain with the
<domain> entry. So, the <inactiveDomain> in the snapshot XML is
not required to snapshot work, but it's useful to preserve the
config XML of running guests.

Signed-off-by: Maxiwell S. Garcia <maxiwell@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
2019-09-11 13:09:45 +02:00
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2019-08-07 14:26:12 +01:00
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       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:

 * bhyve         - bhyve - The BSD Hypervisor
 * 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
 * vbox/         - Virtual Box using native API
 * vmware/       - VMware Workstation and Player using the vmrun tool
 * xen/          - Xen using hypercalls, XenD SEXPR & XenStore


Finally some secondary drivers that are shared for several HVs.
Currently these are used by LXC, OpenVZ, QEMU 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