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 1dddd44451 virGlobalInit: Make glib init its own global state
This should not be needed, but here's what's happening:
virStrToLong_*() family of functions was switched from strtol*()
to g_ascii_strtol*() in order to handle corner cases on Windows
(most notably parsing hex numbers with base=0) - see
v9.4.0-61-g2ed41d7cd9. But what we did not realize back then, is
the fact that g_ascii_strtol*() family has their own global lock
rendering virStrToLong_*() function unsafe between fork() +
exec(). Worse, if one of the threads has to wait for the lock (or
on its corresponding condition), then errno is mangled and
g_ascii_strtol*() signals an error, even though there's no error.

Read more here:

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/3034

Nevertheless, if we make glib init the g_ascii_strtol*() global
state (by calling one function from g_ascii_strtol*() family),
then there shouldn't be any congestion on the lock and thus no
errno mangling.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2023-06-22 10:56:13 +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

Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:

https://libvirt.org/compiling.html

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