When a daemon (like libvirtd, virtqemud, etc.) is started as an unprivileged user (which is exactly how KubeVirt does it), then it tries to register on both session and system DBus-es so that it can shut itself down (e.g. when system is powering off or user logs out). It's worth noting that this is just opportunistic and if no DBus is available then no error is reported. Or at least that's what we thought. Because the way our virGDBusGetSessionBus() and virGDBusGetSystemBus() are written an error is actually reported every time the daemon starts. Use virGDBusHasSessionBus() and virGDBusHasSystemBus() to check if corresponding bus is available. Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-79088 Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@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: