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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Peter Krempa 6f237f4642 Revert "qemu: migration: Improve handling of VIR_MIGRATE_PARAM_DEST_XML with VIR_MIGRATE_PERSIST_DEST"
The original intention was to improve the behaviour of the
VIR_MIGRATE_PERSIST_DEST flag which makes the VM persistent after
migration on the destination when used with VIR_MIGRATE_PARAM_DEST_XML.

While it worked as intended with p2p migration where the migration is
driven from the virtqemud instance on the source of the migration, which
can distinguish between the user-provided input XML and the one fetched
from the source of the migration, it's not easily possible to achieve
the same behaviour with normal migration driven from the client library.

The approach also still had corner cases (originally deemed worth
changing) such as if the persistent definition was modified it would be
overwritten.

As there is no clear fix which would improve both styles of migrations
with no corner cases revert the change.

Upcoming commits will modify the documentation to add warning about the
use of VIR_MIGRATE_PERSIST_DEST with VIR_MIGRATE_PARAM_DEST_XML/xmlin
without using VIR_MIGRATE_PARAM_PERSIST_XML instead of a code fix.

This reverts commit 6a38559092.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
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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:

https://libvirt.org

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:

Further details on contacting the project are available on the website:

https://libvirt.org/contact.html