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Back in July 2009, in the days before libvirt supported explicitly
assigning a PCI address to every device, code was added to save the
PCI addresses of hotplugged network, disk, and hostdevs in the domain
status with this XML element:
<state devaddr='domain🚌slot'/>
This was added in commits 4e21a95a, 01654107, in v0.7.0, and 0c5b7b93
in v0.7.1.
Then just a few months later, in November 2009, The code that actually
formatted the "devaddr='blah'" into the status XML was removed by
commit 1b0cce7d3 (which "introduced a standardized data structure for
device addresses"). The code to *parse* the devaddr from the status
was left in for backward compatibility though (it just parses it into
the "standard" PCI address).
At the time the devaddr attribute was added, a few other attributes
already existed in the <state> element for network devices, and these
were removed over time (I haven't checked the exact dates of this),
but 10 years later, in libvirt v5.8.0, we *still* maintain code to
parse <state devaddr='blah'/> from the domain status.
In the meantime, even distros so old that we no longer support them in
upstream libvirt are using a libvirt new enough that it doesn't ever
write <state devaddr='blah'/> to the domain status XML.
Since the only way a current libvirt would ever encounter this element
would be if someone was upgrading directly from libvirt <= v0.7.5 with
running guests, it seems safe to finally remove the code that parses it.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@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
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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: