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In commit 88957116c9d3cb4705380c3702c9d4315fb500bb I've adapted libvirt to QEMU's deprecation of -mem-path and -mem-prealloc and switched to memory-backend-* even for system memory. My claim was that that's what QEMU does under the hood anyway. And indeed it was: see QEMU commit 900c0ba373aada4c13d47d95330aa72ec4067ba5 and look at function create_default_memdev(). However, then commit d96c4d5f193e0e45beec80a6277728b32875bddb was merged into QEMU. While it was fixing a bug, it also changed the create_default_memdev() function in which it started turning off use of canonical path (by setting "x-use-canonical-path-for-ramblock-id" attribute to false). This wasn't documented until QEMU commit 8db0b20415c129cf5e577a593a4a0372d90b7cc9. The path affects migration - the same path has to be used on the source and on the destination. Therefore, if there is old guest started with '-m X' it has "pc.ram" block which doesn't use canonical path and thus when migrating to newer QEMU which uses memory-backend-* we have to turn off the canonical path explicitly. Otherwise, "/objects/pc.ram" path would be expected by QEMU which doesn't match the source. Ideally, we would need to set it only for some machine types (4.0 and older) because newer machine types already do what we are doing. However, we treat machine types as opaque strings and therefore we don't want to parse nor inspect their versions. But then again, newer machine types already do what we are doing in this commit, so when old machine types are deprecated and removed we can remove our hack and forget it ever happened. Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1912201 Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@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: