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This reverts commit 2841e675. It turns out that adding the host_mtu field to the PCI capabilities in the guest bumps the length of PCI capabilities beyond the 32 byte boundary, so the virtio-net device gets 64 bytes of ioport space instead of 32, which offsets the address of all the other following devices. Migration doesn't work very well when the location and length of PCI capabilities of devices is changed between source and destination. This means that we need to make sure that the absence/presence of host_mtu on the qemu commandline always matches between source and destination, which means that we need to make setting of host_mtu an opt-in thing (it can't happen automatically when the bridge being used has a non-default MTU, which is what commit 2841e675 implemented). I do want to re-implement this feature with an <mtu auto='on'/> setting, but probably won't backport that to any stable branches, so I'm first reverting the original commit, and that revert can be pushed to the few releases that have been made since the original (3.1.0 - 3.3.0) Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1449346
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 2.1 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Libvirt uses the GNU Autotools build system, so in general can be built and installed with the usual commands. For example, to build in a manner that is suitable for installing as root, use:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install
While to build & install as an unprivileged user
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ make
$ make install
The libvirt code relies on a large number of 3rd party libraries. These will be detected during execution of the configure script and a summary printed which lists any missing (optional) dependencies.
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, using the git send-email command. Further guidance on this
can be found in the HACKING file, or the project website
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