30fb2276d8
There is a race condition when spawning QEMU where libvirt has spawned QEMU but the monitor socket is not yet open. Libvirt has to repeatedly try to connect() to QEMU's monitor until eventually it succeeds, or times out. We use kill() to check if QEMU is still alive so we avoid waiting a long time if QEMU exited, but having a timeout at all is still unpleasant. With QEMU 2.12 we can pass in a pre-opened FD for UNIX domain or TCP sockets. If libvirt has called bind() and listen() on this FD, then we have a guarantee that libvirt can immediately call connect() and succeed without any race. Although we only really care about this for the monitor socket and agent socket, this patch does FD passing for all UNIX socket based character devices since there appears to be no downside to it. We don't do FD passing for TCP sockets, however, because it is only possible to pass a single FD, while some hostnames may require listening on multiple FDs to cover IPv4 and IPv6 concurrently. Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@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: