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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Daniel P. Berrange 1c275e9afa Only build server side drivers as modules
The driver modules all use symbols which are defined in libvirt.so.
Thus for loading of modules to work, the binary that libvirt.so
is linked to must export its symbols back to modules. If the
libvirt.so itself is dlopen()d then the RTLD_GLOBAL flag must
be set. Unfortunately few, if any, programming languages use
the RTLD_GLOBAL flag when loading modules :-( This means is it
not practical to use driver modules for any libvirt client side
drivers (OpenVZ, VMWare, Hyper-V, Remote client, test).

This patch changes the build process so only server side drivers
are built as modules (Xen, QEMU, LXC, UML)

* daemon/libvirtd.c: Add missing load of 'interface' driver
* src/Makefile.am: Only build server side drivers as modules
* src/libvirt.c: Don't load any driver modules

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-05-24 13:18:00 +01:00
.gnulib@bb2f5640d5 build: fix bootstrap on RHEL 2012-04-25 16:25:49 -06:00
daemon Only build server side drivers as modules 2012-05-24 13:18:00 +01:00
docs Introduce filesystem limits to virDomainFSDef 2012-05-24 11:35:02 +02:00
examples Revert "Refactor the libvirt RPM daemon pieces" 2012-04-03 14:49:31 +08:00
gnulib build: fix fresh checkout on RHEL5 2012-04-19 17:11:43 -06:00
include storage backend: Add RBD (RADOS Block Device) support 2012-05-21 12:37:38 -06:00
m4 Enable all warnings permanently & default to -Werror for GIT builds 2012-03-27 17:08:06 +01:00
po storage backend: Add RBD (RADOS Block Device) support 2012-05-21 12:37:38 -06:00
python Coverity: Fix the forward_null error in Python binding codes 2012-05-04 10:23:57 +08:00
src Only build server side drivers as modules 2012-05-24 13:18:00 +01:00
tests openvz: support file system quota reporting 2012-05-24 11:35:02 +02:00
tools storage backend: Add RBD (RADOS Block Device) support 2012-05-21 12:37:38 -06:00
.dir-locals.el maint: let emacs avoid tabs in rng files 2011-08-13 08:56:26 -06:00
.gitignore docs: Serialize running apibuild.py 2012-04-27 12:37:47 -04:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap maint: prune duplicate listings in AUTHORS 2012-02-03 09:56:45 -07:00
AUTHORS sanlock: fix locking for readonly devices 2012-05-14 16:44:09 -06:00
autobuild.sh Enable all warnings permanently & default to -Werror for GIT builds 2012-03-27 17:08:06 +01:00
autogen.sh build: allow for local gnulib diffs 2011-11-09 09:03:33 -07:00
bootstrap build: fix bootstrap on RHEL 2012-04-25 16:25:49 -06:00
bootstrap.conf build: fix bootstrap on RHEL 2012-04-25 16:25:49 -06:00
cfg.mk build: fix recent syntax-check breakage 2012-05-16 09:52:44 -06:00
ChangeLog-old virterror.c: Fix several spelling mistakes 2012-02-03 11:32:51 -07:00
configure.ac storage backend: Add RBD (RADOS Block Device) support 2012-05-21 12:37:38 -06:00
COPYING.LIB remove all trailing blank lines 2009-07-16 15:06:42 +02:00
HACKING Document STREQ_NULLABLE and STRNEQ_NULLABLE 2011-10-06 16:50:38 +02:00
libvirt.pc.in Fix typos in API XML file paths 2012-02-15 11:29:38 +00:00
libvirt.spec.in Fix dep from libvirt-lock-sanlock RPM 2012-05-24 13:18:00 +01:00
Makefile.am maint: add missing copyright notices 2011-07-28 15:01:17 -06:00
Makefile.nonreentrant Ban use of all inet_* functions 2010-10-22 11:59:23 +01:00
mingw32-libvirt.spec.in Fix typos in API XML file paths 2012-02-15 11:29:38 +00:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
README-hacking maint: relax git minimum version 2010-02-24 14:29:27 -05:00
TODO Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00

         LibVirt : simple API for virtualization

  Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.

Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>