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Use of the -enable-fips option is being deprecated in QEMU >= 5.2.0. If FIPS compliance is required, QEMU must be built with libcrypt which will unconditionally enforce it. Thus there is no need for libvirt to pass -enable-fips to modern QEMU. Unfortunately there was never any way to probe for -enable-fips in the first instance, it was enabled by libvirt based on version number originally, and then later unconditionally enabled when libvirt dropped support for older QEMU. Similarly we now use a version number check to decide when to stop passing -enable-fips. Note that the qemu-5.2 capabilities are currently from the pre-release version and will be updated once qemu-5.2 is released. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@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:
- 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: