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qemuDomainDetachHostDevice() has a check at the end that calls qemuDomainDetachNetDevice() in the case that the hostdev is actually a Net device of type='hostdev'. A long time ago when device removal was (supposedly but not actually) synchronous, this would cause some extra code to be run prior to removing the device (e.g. restoring the original MAC address of the device, undoing some sort of virtual port profile, etc). For quite awhile now the device removal has been asynchronous, so that "extra teardown" isn't handled by the detach function, but instead is handled by the Remove function called at a later time. The result is that when we call qemuDomainDetachNetDevice() from qemuDomainDetachHostDevice(), it ends up just calling qemuDomainDetachThisHostDevice() and returning, which is exactly what we do for all other hostdevs anyway. Based on that, remove the behavioral difference when parent.type == VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_NET, and just call qemuDomainDetachThisHostDevice() for all hostdevs. Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org> ACKed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
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:
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:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: