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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Laine Stump 6e13860cb4 qemu: add vfio devices to cgroup ACL when appropriate
PCIO device assignment using VFIO requires read/write access by the
qemu process to /dev/vfio/vfio, and /dev/vfio/nn, where "nn" is the
VFIO group number that the assigned device belongs to (and can be
found with the function virPCIDeviceGetVFIOGroupDev)

/dev/vfio/vfio can be accessible to any guest without danger
(according to vfio developers), so it is added to the static ACL.

The group device must be dynamically added to the cgroup ACL for each
vfio hostdev in two places:

1) for any devices in the persistent config when the domain is started
   (done during qemuSetupCgroup())

2) at device attach time for any hotplug devices (done in
   qemuDomainAttachHostDevice)

The group device must be removed from the ACL when a device it
"hot-unplugged" (in qemuDomainDetachHostDevice())

Note that USB devices are already doing their own cgroup setup and
teardown in the hostdev-usb specific function. I chose to make the new
functions generic and call them in a common location though. We can
then move the USB-specific code (which is duplicated in two locations)
to this single location. I'll be posting a followup patch to do that.
2013-04-29 21:52:28 -04:00
.gnulib@92f3a4c8e5 maint: update to latest gnulib 2013-04-15 10:25:30 -06:00
build-aux Document bracket whitespace rules & add syntax-check rule 2012-11-02 14:00:32 +00:00
daemon Extend previous check to validate driver struct field names 2013-04-24 10:59:53 +01:00
docs conf: formatter/parser/RNG/docs for hostdev <driver name='kvm|vfio'/> 2013-04-25 21:23:38 -04:00
examples Re-add DTrace probes on 'dispose' functions 2013-03-14 12:42:21 +00:00
gnulib maint: update to latest gnulib 2013-01-02 09:38:30 -07:00
include hypervisor api: new virNodeDeviceDetachFlags 2013-04-25 21:28:10 -04:00
m4 Don't enable -fPIE on Win32 platforms 2013-04-15 17:35:30 +01:00
po Helper functions for host TPM support 2013-04-12 16:55:45 -04:00
python docs: fix usage of 'onto' 2013-04-19 14:31:16 -06:00
src qemu: add vfio devices to cgroup ACL when appropriate 2013-04-29 21:52:28 -04:00
tests qemu: honor allowDiskFormatProbing when parsing command line 2013-04-29 15:52:02 +02:00
tools virsh: suppress aliases in group help 2013-04-26 05:45:11 -06:00
.dir-locals.el build: avoid tabs that failed syntax-check 2012-09-06 09:43:46 -06:00
.gitignore Add a test suite for cgroups functionality 2013-04-15 17:35:31 +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 Disable static libraries by default 2013-04-03 11:02:27 +01:00
autogen.sh build: fix incremental autogen.sh when no AUTHORS is present 2012-12-03 14:59:09 -07:00
bootstrap maint: update to latest gnulib 2013-04-09 14:22:09 -06:00
bootstrap.conf build: more mingw fixes 2013-02-15 15:45:52 -07:00
cfg.mk build: avoid unsafe functions in libgen.h 2013-04-25 14:47:01 -06:00
ChangeLog-old virterror.c: Fix several spelling mistakes 2012-02-03 11:32:51 -07:00
configure.ac util: new virCommandSetMax(MemLock|Processes|Files) 2013-04-26 10:23:46 -04:00
COPYING.LIB Update to COPYING.LIB to latest LGPLv2.1 copy 2013-03-15 10:50:32 +01:00
HACKING docs: fix usage of 'onto' 2013-04-19 14:31:16 -06:00
libvirt.pc.in build: silence warning from autoconf 2012-05-30 09:22:02 -06:00
libvirt.spec.in spec: Require pod2man when running autoreconf 2013-04-08 16:11:16 +02:00
Makefile.am build: Fix AUTHORS generation 2012-12-17 21:17:55 +01:00
Makefile.nonreentrant Ban use of all inet_* functions 2010-10-22 11:59:23 +01:00
mingw-libvirt.spec.in test: Return Libvirt logo as domain screenshot 2013-04-02 14:38:56 +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>