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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.
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We are about to turn on support for active block commit. Although qemu 2.0 was the first version to mostly support it, that version mis-handles 0-length files, and doesn't have anything available for easy probing. But qemu 2.1 fixed bugs, and made life simpler by letting the 'top' argument be optional. Unless someone begs for active commit with qemu 2.0, for now we are just going to enable it only by probing for qemu 2.1 behavior (anyone backporting active commit can also backport the optional argument behavior). This requires qemu.git commit 7676e2c597000eff3a7233b40cca768b358f9bc9. Although all our actual uses of block-commit supply arguments for both base and top, we can omit both arguments and use a bogus device string to trigger an interesting behavior in qemu. All QMP commands first do argument validation, failing with GenericError if a mandatory argument is missing. Once that passes, the code in the specific command gets to do further checking, and the qemu developers made sure that if device is the only supplied argument, then the block-commit code will look up the device first, with a failure of DeviceNotFound, before attempting any further argument validation (most other validations fail with GenericError). Thus, the category of error class can reliably be used to decipher whether the top argument was optional, which in turn implies a working active commit. Since we expect our bogus device string to trigger an error either way, the code is written to return a distinct return value without spamming the logs. * src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h (qemuMonitorSupportsActiveCommit): New prototype. * src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c (qemuMonitorSupportsActiveCommit): Implement it. * src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.h (qemuMonitorJSONBlockCommit): Allow NULL for top and base, for probing purposes. * src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c (qemuMonitorJSONBlockCommit): Likewise, implementing the probe. * tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c (mymain): Enable... (testQemuMonitorJSONqemuMonitorSupportsActiveCommit): ...a new test. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@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>