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When migrating a domain with invtsc CPU feature enabled, the TSC frequency of the destination host must match the frequency used when the domain was started on the source host or the destination host has to support TSC scaling. If the frequencies do not match and the destination host does not support TSC scaling, QEMU will fail to set the right TSC frequency when starting vCPUs on the destination and thus migration will fail. However, this is quite late since both host might have spent significant time transferring memory and perhaps even storage data. By adding the check to libvirt we can let migration fail before any data starts to be sent over. If for some reason libvirt is unable to detect the host's TSC frequency or scaling support, we'll just let QEMU try and the migration will either succeed or fail later. Luckily, we mandate TSC frequency to be explicitly set in the domain XML to even allow migration of domains with invtsc. We can just check whether the requested frequency is compatible with the current host before starting QEMU. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1641702 Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@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 2.1 (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. 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: