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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.
Currently LXC guests can be given arbitrary pre-mounted filesystems, however, for some usecases it is more appropriate to provide block devices which the container can mount itself. This first impl only allows for <disk type='block'>, in other words exposing a host disk device to a container. Since LXC does not have device namespace virtualization, we are cheating a little bit. If the XML specifies /dev/sdc4 to be given to the container as /dev/sda1, when we do the mknod /dev/sda1 in the container's /dev, we actually use the major:minor number of /dev/sdc4, not /dev/sda1. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> |
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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>