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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Jonathon Jongsma 447e09dfdb qemu: Monitor nbdkit process for exit
Adds the ability to monitor the nbdkit process so that we can take
action in case the child exits unexpectedly.

When the nbdkit process exits, we pause the vm, restart nbdkit, and then
resume the vm. This allows the vm to continue working in the event of a
nbdkit failure.

Eventually we may want to generalize this functionality since we may
need something similar for e.g. qemu-storage-daemon, etc.

The process is monitored with the pidfd_open() syscall if it exists
(since linux 5.3). Otherwise it resorts to checking whether the process
is alive once a second. The one-second time period was chosen somewhat
arbitrarily.

Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
2023-09-19 14:28:50 -05:00
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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