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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Jim Meyering 7bb22f58b8 make .gnulib a submodule
This makes it so we record (via a git submodule)
a snapshot of whatever version of gnulib we're using,
and none of gnulib sources are in the libvirt repository.
The result is that we have as much reproducibility as when
we version-controlled imported copies of the gnulib sources,
but without the hassle of the manual process we used when
syncing with upstream.

Note that when you clone libvirt, you get only the libvirt
repository, but when you first run ./bootstrap, it clones
gnulib (at the SHA1 recorded via the submodule), creating
the .gnulib/ hierarchy.  Then, the bootstrap script runs
gnulib-tool to populate gnulib/ with the files that make
up the selected modules.

Put the following in your ~/.gitconfig file.
[alias]
  syncsub = submodule foreach git pull origin master

The update procedure is simple:
  git syncsub
  ...build & test...
  git commit -m 'gnulib: sync submodule to latest' .gnulib

* .gitmodules: New file.
* .gnulib: Initialize.
* bootstrap: Set up to use the new submodule.
Stop using --no-vc-files.
Don't remove .gitignore files.
Don't use or create .cvsignore.
Diagnose an invalid --gnulib-srcdir=DIR argument.
* build-aux/vc-list-files: Delete file, now pulled from gnulib.
* build-aux/useless-if-before-free: Likewise.
* po/POTFILES.in: Remove gnulib/lib/gai_strerror.c, since
it no longer contains translatable strings.
* gnulib/*: Remove gnulib/ hierarchy.
2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.gnulib@1203e8d1f6 make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
build-aux make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
docs fix failing "make distcheck" 2009-07-08 15:59:58 +02:00
examples Fix python domain events example & binding 2009-05-28 11:02:11 +00:00
include Release of libvirt-0.6.5 2009-07-03 14:32:17 +00:00
m4 Remove trailing whitespace from m4 file 2009-04-30 13:30:51 +00:00
po make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
proxy Fix libvirt_proxy.c warnings from gcc-4.4 2009-02-13 19:11:37 +00:00
python Fix python examples to use read-write conn 2009-07-06 17:05:41 +02:00
qemud Various logging cleanups in code and doc 2009-07-01 11:21:15 +00:00
src Support <video> element for QEMU guests 2009-07-08 13:40:32 +01:00
tests fix another failing "make distcheck" (qemuhelptest) 2009-07-08 16:00:05 +02:00
tools Add tool for validating XML & fix misc bugs in virsh POD docs 2009-04-19 15:10:45 +00:00
.cvsignore correct and tighten up .*ignore files 2009-01-23 13:32:17 +00:00
.gitignore make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.hgignore Add qemuhelptest to .*ignore files 2009-06-16 14:06:48 +00:00
.x-sc_avoid_ctype_macros exempt gnulib from ctype-macros prohibition 2008-10-28 17:36:31 +00:00
.x-sc_avoid_if_before_free Remove more useless if tests before "free"-like functions. 2008-02-07 16:49:29 +00:00
.x-sc_avoid_write Make error reporting threadsafe by avoiding strerror 2009-01-20 17:13:33 +00:00
.x-sc_m4_quote_check syntax-check: enable more checks 2009-02-03 13:08:36 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_asprintf add .x-sc_prohibit_asprintf 2008-12-23 13:40:42 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_gethostby add more files pulled in via yesterday's gnulib upgrade 2009-01-07 17:11:02 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_have_config_h maint: sync from coreutils 2009-01-29 18:06:19 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_HAVE_MBRTOWC maint: sync from coreutils 2009-01-29 18:06:19 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_nonreentrant syntax-check: enable prohibit_nonreentrant 2009-02-05 16:28:41 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_strcmp exempt gnulib/ from "make syntax-check" strcmp prohibition 2008-05-14 21:18:27 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_strcmp_and_strncmp Prepare to use maint.mk from gnulib 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.x-sc_prohibit_VIR_ERR_NO_MEMORY prohibit new uses of VIR_ERR_NO_MEMORY 2009-01-29 12:10:52 +00:00
.x-sc_require_config_h Enable the <config.h>-requiring test; fix violations 2008-01-29 18:15:54 +00:00
.x-sc_require_config_h_first enforce the "include <config.h> first" rule 2008-12-17 17:23:21 +00:00
.x-sc_trailing_blank build: exempt *.ico files from the trailing blank check 2008-10-16 13:28:07 +00:00
acinclude.m4 Improve compiler flag checking 2009-01-14 15:23:26 +00:00
AUTHORS Fix some missing parts in network code and schemas 2009-07-02 14:02:18 +00:00
autobuild.sh Disable vbox driver for mingw32 builds 2009-04-19 16:37:15 +00:00
autogen.sh Remove all trailing blanks; turn on the rule to detect them. 2008-02-05 19:27:37 +00:00
bootstrap make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
cfg.mk skip some of gnulib's new rules 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
ChangeLog update download informations after switch to git 2009-07-06 14:27:00 +02:00
configure.in use automake-1.11's silent-rules option, when possible 2009-07-08 16:15:46 +02:00
COPYING.LIB Initial revision 2005-11-02 12:50:21 +00:00
GNUmakefile Prepare to use maint.mk from gnulib 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
HACKING * HACKING: Clarify "bool" vs. XDR/wire-format. 2009-01-13 10:45:41 +00:00
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 Add new net filesystem glusterfs 2009-07-08 11:46:25 +02:00
Makefile.am Prepare to use maint.mk from gnulib 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
Makefile.maint Prepare to use maint.mk from gnulib 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
Makefile.nonreentrant syntax-check: enable prohibit_nonreentrant 2009-02-05 16:28:41 +00:00
mingw32-libvirt.spec.in Added new virt-xml-validate tool to mingw specfile 2009-04-19 16:47:43 +00:00
mylibtool Add libtool wrapper to allow quiet build with "make -s" 2009-05-12 15:40:03 +00:00
NEWS release of libvirt-0.6.4 2009-05-29 16:51:15 +00:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
RENAMES remove cvs $Id$ strings 2008-12-12 12:45:34 +00:00
TODO Remove all trailing blanks; turn on the rule to detect them. 2008-02-05 19:27:37 +00:00
virsh.1 Fix typo in manpage 2009-04-20 11:55:53 +00:00

         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>