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dnsmasq documentation says that the *IPv4* prefix/network address/broadcast address sent to dhcp clients will be automatically determined by dnsmasq by looking at the interface it's listening on, so the original libvirt code did not add a netmask to the dnsmasq commandline (or later, the dnsmasq conf file). For *IPv6* however, dnsmasq apparently cannot automatically determine the prefix (functionally the same as a netmask), and it must be explicitly provided in the conf file (as a part of the dhcp-range option). So many years after IPv4 DHCP support had been added, when IPv6 dhcp support was added the prefix was included at the end of the dhcp-range setting, but only for IPv6. A user had reported a bug on a host where one of the interfaces was a superset of the libvirt network where dhcp is needed (e.g., the host's ethernet is 10.0.0.20/8, and the libvirt network is 10.10.0.1/24). For some reason dnsmasq was supplying the netmask for the /8 network to clients requesting an address on the /24 interface. This seems like a bug in dnsmasq, but even if/when it gets fixed there, it looks like there is no harm in just always adding the netmask to all IPv4 dhcp-range options similar to how prefix is added to all IPv6 dhcp-range options. Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org> Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@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: