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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Peter Krempa 442061583e virt-admin: Add warning when connection to default daemon fails
The admin connection defaults to the system-wide 'libvirtd' daemon to
manage (libvirtd:///system). As we've now switched to modular daemons
this will not work for most users out of the box:

 $ virt-admin version
 error: Failed to connect to the admin server
 error: no valid connection
 error: Failed to connect socket to '/run/user/1000/libvirt/libvirt-admin-sock': No such file or directory

As we don't want to assume which daemon the user wants to manage in the
modular topology there's no reasonable default to pick.

Give a hint to the users to use the '-c' if the connection to the
default URI fails:

 $ virt-admin version
 NOTE: Connecting to default daemon. Specify daemon using '-c' (e.g. virtqemud:///system)
 error: Failed to connect to the admin server
 error: no valid connection
 error: Failed to connect socket to '/run/user/1000/libvirt/libvirt-admin-sock': No such file or directory

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
2024-02-02 16:06:15 +01:00
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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:

https://libvirt.org

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 2.0 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.

Installation

Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:

https://libvirt.org/compiling.html

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:

Further details on contacting the project are available on the website:

https://libvirt.org/contact.html