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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Daniel P. Berrange 777ffbd0e2 Allow for URI aliases when connecting to libvirt
This adds support for a libvirt client configuration file
either /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf for privileged clients,
or $HOME/.libvirt/libvirt.conf for unprivileged clients.

It allows one parameter

 uri_aliases = [
   "hail=qemu+ssh://root@hail.cloud.example.com/system",
   "sleet=qemu+ssh://root@sleet.cloud.example.com/system",
 ]

Any call to virConnectOpen with a non-NULL URI will first
attempt to match against the uri_aliases list. An application
can disable this by using VIR_CONNECT_NO_ALIASES

* docs/uri.html.in: Document URI aliases
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in: Add VIR_CONNECT_NO_ALIASES
* libvirt.spec.in, mingw32-libvirt.spec.in: Add /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf
* src/Makefile.am: Install default config file
* src/libvirt.c: Add support for URI aliases
* src/remote/remote_driver.c: Don't try to handle URIs
  with no scheme and which clearly are not paths
* src/util/conf.c: Don't raise error on virConfFree(NULL)
* src/xen/xen_driver.c: Don't raise error on URIs
  with no scheme
2011-10-19 09:14:34 +01:00
.gnulib@2394a603e7 build: update to latest gnulib 2011-10-13 08:50:24 -06:00
daemon daemon: Always advertise libvirtd service 2011-10-12 20:37:05 +08:00
docs Allow for URI aliases when connecting to libvirt 2011-10-19 09:14:34 +01:00
examples example: Support debug output and loop switch 2011-10-12 16:18:32 -06:00
gnulib freebsd: Fix build problem due to picking up the wrong libvirt.h 2011-07-29 07:35:54 -06:00
include Allow for URI aliases when connecting to libvirt 2011-10-19 09:14:34 +01:00
m4 tests: Lower stack usage below 4096 bytes 2011-04-30 19:59:52 +02:00
po Release of libvirt-0.9.6 2011-09-22 14:53:23 +08:00
python Fix two comments related to error handling 2011-10-17 17:21:56 +02:00
src Allow for URI aliases when connecting to libvirt 2011-10-19 09:14:34 +01:00
tests Add AHCI support to qemu driver 2011-10-17 15:44:21 -06:00
tools Use virBufferEscapeShell in cmdEcho 2011-10-19 09:24:02 +02:00
.dir-locals.el maint: let emacs avoid tabs in rng files 2011-08-13 08:56:26 -06:00
.gitignore Prevent crash from dlclose() of libvirt.so 2011-09-16 15:51:31 -06:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap bridge_driver.c: Fix autoconf setting 2011-10-03 23:35:29 -04:00
AUTHORS buf: implement generic virBufferEscape 2011-10-12 11:05:41 -06:00
autobuild.sh spec: mingw cleanups 2011-10-13 09:21:02 -06:00
autogen.sh build: avoid problems with autogen.sh runs from tarball 2011-02-12 06:28:28 -07:00
bootstrap build: fix compilation on mingw64 2011-08-19 07:20:10 -06:00
bootstrap.conf build: work around lack of MacOS fdatasync 2011-09-16 17:42:28 -06:00
cfg.mk Update examples for probing with systemtap 2011-10-11 11:26:15 +01:00
ChangeLog-old generate ChangeLog from git logs into distribution tarball 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
configure.ac Release of libvirt-0.9.6 2011-09-22 14:53:23 +08:00
COPYING.LIB remove all trailing blank lines 2009-07-16 15:06:42 +02:00
HACKING Document STREQ_NULLABLE and STRNEQ_NULLABLE 2011-10-06 16:50:38 +02:00
libvirt.pc.in * libvirt.pc.in: applied patch from Daniel Berrange to fix --cflags 2006-03-24 13:18:12 +00:00
libvirt.spec.in Allow for URI aliases when connecting to libvirt 2011-10-19 09:14:34 +01:00
Makefile.am maint: add missing copyright notices 2011-07-28 15:01:17 -06:00
Makefile.nonreentrant Ban use of all inet_* functions 2010-10-22 11:59:23 +01:00
mingw32-libvirt.spec.in Allow for URI aliases when connecting to libvirt 2011-10-19 09:14:34 +01:00
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
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>