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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Michal Privoznik 84f9358b18 virpcimock: Create driver_override file in device dirs
Newer kernels (v3.16-rc1~29^2~6^4) have 'driver_override' file
which simplifies way of binding a PCI device to desired driver.
Libvirt has support for this for some time too (v2.3.0-rc1~236),
but not our virpcimock. So far we did not care because our code
is designed to deal with this situation. Except for one.
hypothetical case: binding a device to the vfio-pci driver can be
successful only via driver_override. Any attempt to bind a PCI
device to vfio-pci driver using old method (new_id + unbind +
bind) will fail because of b803b29c1a. While on vanilla kernel
I'm able to use the old method successfully, it's failing on RHEL
kernels (not sure why).

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
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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:

https://libvirt.org

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

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:

Further details on contacting the project are available on the website:

https://libvirt.org/contact.html