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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Daniel P. Berrange 664ab2801d Add info about access control checks into API reference
So that app developers / admins know what access control checks
are performed for each API, this patch extends the API docs
generator to include details of the ACLs for each.

The gendispatch.pl script is extended so that it generates
a simple XML describing ACL rules, eg.

  <aclinfo>
    ...
    <api name='virConnectNumOfDomains'>
      <check object='connect' perm='search_domains'/>
      <filter object='domain' perm='getattr'/>
    </api>
    <api name='virDomainAttachDeviceFlags'>
      <check object='domain' perm='write'/>
      <check object='domain' perm='save' flags='!VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_CONFIG|VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_LIVE'/>
      <check object='domain' perm='save' flags='VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_CONFIG'/>
    </api>
    ...
  </aclinfo>

The newapi.xsl template loads the XML files containing the ACL
rules and generates a short block of HTML for each API describing
the parameter checks and return value filters (if any).

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2013-08-08 11:59:46 +01:00
.gnulib@644c40496c maint: update to latest gnulib 2013-07-19 05:53:02 -06:00
build-aux Add API for calling systemd-machined's DBus API 2013-07-22 13:09:58 +01:00
daemon build: fix missing max_queued_clients in augeas test file for libvirtd.conf 2013-08-05 15:09:52 -04:00
docs Add info about access control checks into API reference 2013-08-08 11:59:46 +01:00
examples examples: fix mingw build vs. printf 2013-07-29 12:53:36 -06:00
gnulib maint: use LGPL correctly 2013-05-20 14:03:48 -06:00
include qemu: support to drop disk with 'optional' startupPolicy 2013-08-07 15:11:15 +08:00
m4 maint: the compiler is not always named gcc 2013-08-07 09:44:52 -06:00
po bridge driver: extract platform specifics 2013-08-01 15:47:02 -06:00
python Delete obsolete / unused python test files 2013-07-30 14:13:58 +01:00
src Add info about access control checks into API reference 2013-08-08 11:59:46 +01:00
tests Fix validation of CA certificate chains 2013-08-08 10:44:28 +01:00
tools Rename VIR_DOMAIN_PAUSED_GUEST_PANICKED to VIR_DOMAIN_PAUSED_CRASHED 2013-07-29 18:08:55 +01:00
.ctags maint: Make ctags work out of the box 2013-07-18 08:47:21 +02:00
.dir-locals.el build: avoid tabs that failed syntax-check 2012-09-06 09:43:46 -06:00
.gitignore Add info about access control checks into API reference 2013-08-08 11:59:46 +01:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap Autogenerate AUTHORS 2012-10-19 12:44:56 -04:00
AUTHORS.in Add John Ferlan to the committers list 2013-02-05 10:59:32 -05:00
autobuild.sh Set PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR in autobuild.sh 2013-05-17 17:09:29 +01:00
autogen.sh autogen: Handle case when libvirt's submodule 2013-07-19 13:45:22 +02:00
bootstrap maint: update to latest gnulib 2013-07-19 05:53:02 -06:00
bootstrap.conf maint: update to latest gnulib 2013-07-19 05:53:02 -06:00
cfg.mk Split TLS test into two separate tests 2013-08-08 10:00:42 +01:00
ChangeLog-old virterror.c: Fix several spelling mistakes 2012-02-03 11:32:51 -07:00
configure.ac Revert "build: fix configure detection of if_bridge.h on RHEL 6" 2013-08-07 11:59:38 +01:00
COPYING maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
COPYING.LESSER maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
HACKING Fix minor typos in messages and docs 2013-07-30 07:07:33 -06:00
libvirt.pc.in build: silence warning from autoconf 2012-05-30 09:22:02 -06:00
libvirt.spec.in spec: Explicitly claim ownership of channel subdir 2013-08-02 17:22:33 +02:00
Makefile.am maint: split long lines in Makefiles 2013-07-19 05:25:35 -06:00
Makefile.nonreentrant maint: use LGPL correctly 2013-05-20 14:03:48 -06:00
mingw-libvirt.spec.in conf: add features to volume target XML 2013-06-21 13:25:30 +02:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
README-hacking maint: relax git minimum version 2010-02-24 14:29:27 -05:00
run.in run: license as LGPL 2013-02-23 14:03:19 -07:00
TODO Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00

         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>