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QEMU allows and in cases where you omit the not-strictly-needed 'raw' driver on top of raw images automatically uses the protocol name inside of the 'backing file format' field of the qcow2 image. Libvirt expects only format names in that field. Add example images showing this scenario, which will be fixed later. The qcow2 image files in this commit were formatted as: qemu-img create -f qcow2 -F nbd -b nbd+tcp://example.org:6000/blah -u qcow2-protocol-backing-nbd.qcow2 10M and qemu-img create -f qcow2 -F file -b raw qcow2-protocol-backing-file.qcow2 thus using 'nbd' and 'file' as backing format respectively. (note that '-b raw' refers to the file in the example image folder) To satisfy the test, note that the NBD image is also rejected as we can't probe it, thus such configuration would not work. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@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:
- users@lists.libvirt.org (for user discussions)
- devel@lists.libvirt.org (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: