This reverts commit b3710e9a2af402a2b620de570b062294e11190eb. That check is very valuable for our code, but it causes issue with glib >= 2.67.0 when building with clang. The reason is a combination of two commits in glib, firstly fdda405b6b1b which adds a g_atomic_pointer_{set,get} variants that enforce stricter type checking (by removing an extra cast) for compilers that support __typeof__, and commit dce24dc4492d which effectively enabled the new variant of glib's atomic code for clang. This will not be necessary when glib's issue #600 [0] (8 years old) is fixed. Thankfully, MR #1719 [1], which is supposed to deal with this issue was opened 3 weeks ago, so there is a slight sliver of hope. [0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/600 [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/1719 Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@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 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:
- 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: