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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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Eric Blake 282fe1f08c snapshot: prevent stranding snapshot data on domain destruction 
Just as leaving managed save metadata behind can cause problems
when creating a new domain that happens to collide with the name
of the just-deleted domain, the same is true of leaving any
snapshot metadata behind.  For safety sake, extend the semantic
change of commit b26a9fa9 to also cover snapshot metadata as a
reason to reject undefining an inactive domain.  A future patch
will make sure that shutdown of a transient domain automatically
deletes snapshot metadata (whether by destroy, shutdown, or
guest-initiated action).  Management apps of transient domains
should take care to capture xml of snapshots, if it is necessary
to recreate the snapshot metadata on a later transient domain
with the same name and uuid.

This also documents a new flag that hypervisors can choose to
support as a shortcut for taking care of the metadata as part of
the undefine process; however, nontrivial driver support for these
flags will be deferred to future patches.

Note that ESX and VBox can never be transient; therefore, they
do not have to worry about automatic cleanup after shutdown
(the persistent domain still remains); likewise they never
store snapshot metadata, so the undefine flag is trivial.
The nontrivial work remaining is thus in the qemu driver.

* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
(VIR_DOMAIN_UNDEFINE_SNAPSHOTS_METADATA): New flag.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainUndefine, virDomainUndefineFlags):
Document new limitations and flag.
* src/esx/esx_driver.c (esxDomainUndefineFlags): Trivial
implementation.
* src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c (vboxDomainUndefineFlags): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainUndefineFlags): Enforce
the limitations.
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.gnulib@a6b16b69fe build: fix compilation on mingw64 2011-08-19 07:20:10 -06:00
daemon libvirtd: create run dir when running at non-root user 2011-09-01 20:32:10 -06:00
docs snapshot: allow recreation of metadata 2011-09-02 17:44:42 -06:00
examples snapshot: better events when starting paused 2011-09-02 10:00:06 -06:00
gnulib freebsd: Fix build problem due to picking up the wrong libvirt.h 2011-07-29 07:35:54 -06:00
include snapshot: prevent stranding snapshot data on domain destruction 2011-09-02 21:57:33 -06:00
m4 tests: Lower stack usage below 4096 bytes 2011-04-30 19:59:52 +02:00
po hyperv: Add basic driver for Microsoft Hyper-V 2011-08-26 17:52:55 +02:00
python Add public API for getting migration speed 2011-09-01 11:26:21 -06:00
src snapshot: prevent stranding snapshot data on domain destruction 2011-09-02 21:57:33 -06:00
tests Learn to use spicevmc as a redirection type for usb-redir 2011-09-02 23:39:03 +08:00
tools snapshot: improve virsh snapshot-create, add snapshot-edit 2011-09-02 21:57:32 -06:00
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.gitignore hyperv: Add OpenWSMAN based client for the Hyper-V WMI API 2011-08-26 17:52:55 +02:00
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AUTHORS libvirtd: create run dir when running at non-root user 2011-09-01 20:32:10 -06:00
autobuild.sh Remove the Open Nebula driver 2011-03-28 14:09:11 +01:00
autogen.sh build: avoid problems with autogen.sh runs from tarball 2011-02-12 06:28:28 -07:00
bootstrap build: fix compilation on mingw64 2011-08-19 07:20:10 -06:00
bootstrap.conf Add API for duplicating a socket/client file descriptor 2011-08-15 15:21:26 +02:00
cfg.mk hyperv: Add driver skeleton 2011-08-26 17:52:55 +02:00
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configure.ac storage: Add mkfs and libblkid to build system 2011-09-02 21:16:50 +08:00
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HACKING build: rename files.h to virfile.h 2011-07-21 10:34:51 -06:00
libvirt.pc.in * libvirt.pc.in: applied patch from Daniel Berrange to fix --cflags 2006-03-24 13:18:12 +00:00
libvirt.spec.in storage: Add mkfs and libblkid to build system 2011-09-02 21:16:50 +08:00
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 conf: put virtPortProfile struct / functions in a common location 2011-07-21 14:46:33 -04:00
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

README 

         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>