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.
Two regressions:
Commit df1011ca broke builds for systems that lack devmapper
(non-Linux, as well as Linux with ./autogen.sh --without-libvirtd
and without the libraries present).
Commit ce6fd650 broke cross-compilation, due to a gnulib bug.
* .gnulib: Update to latest, for cross-compilation fix.
* src/util/util.c (virIsDevMapperDevice): Provide stub for
platforms not using storage driver.
* configure.ac (devmapper): Arrange to define HAVE_LIBDEVMAPPER_H.
devmapper issue reported by Wen Congyang.
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>