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Every time we call all domain stats for inactive domain with unavailable storage source we get error message in logs [1]. It's a bit noisy. While it's arguable whether we need such message or not for mandatory disks we would like not to see messages for optional disks. Let's filter at least for cases of local files. Fixing other cases would require passing flag down the stack to .backendInit of storage which is ugly. Stats for active domain are fine because we either drop disks with unavailable sources or clean source which is handled by virStorageSourceIsEmpty in qemuDomainGetStatsOneBlockFallback. We have these logs for successful stats since 25aa7035d (version 1.2.15) which in turn fixes 596a13713 (version 1.2.12 )which added substantial stats for offline disks. [1] error message example: qemuOpenFileAs:3324 : Failed to open file '/path/to/optional/disk': No such file or directory Signed-off-by: Nikolay Shirokovskiy <nshirokovskiy@virtuozzo.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: