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In the past, the only allowable values for the "driver" field of
virNodeDeviceDetachFlags() were "kvm" or "vfio" for the QEMU driver,
and "xen" for the libxl driver. Then "kvm" was deprecated and removed,
so the driver name became essentially irrelevant (because it is always
called via a particular hypervisor driver, and so the "xen" or "vfio"
can be (and almost always is) implied.
With the advent of VFIO variant drivers, the ability to explicitly
specify a driver name once again becomes useful - it can be used to
name the exact VFIO driver that we want bound to the device in place
of vfio-pci, so this patch allows those other names to be passed down
the call chain, where the code in virpci.c can make use of them.
The names "vfio", "kvm", and "xen" retain their special meaning, though:
1) because there may be some application or configuration that still
calls virNodeDeviceDetachFlags() with driverName="vfio", this
single value is substituted with the synonym of NULL, which means
"bind the default driver for this device and hypervisor". This
will currently result in the vfio-pci driver being bound to the
device.
2) in the case of the libxl driver, "xen" means to use the standard
driver used in the case of Xen ("pciback").
3) "kvm" as a driver name always results in an error, as legacy KVM
device assignment was removed from the kernel around 10 years ago.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@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 2.0 (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
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