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The Travis CI system uses Docker containers for its build environment. These are pre-built and hosted under quay.io/libvirt so that developers can use them for reproducing problems locally. Getting the right Docker command syntax to use them, however, is not entirely easy. This patch addresses that usability issue by introducing some make targets. To run a simple build (aka 'make all') using the Fedora 28 container: make ci-build@fedora-28 To also run unit tests make ci-check@fedora-28 This is just syntax sugar for calling the previous command with a custom make target make ci-build@fedora-28 CI_MAKE_ARGS="check" To do a purely interactive build it is possible to request a shell make ci-shell@fedora-28 To do a MinGW build, it is currently possible to use the fedora-rawhide image and request a different configure script make ci-build@fedora-rawhide CI_CONFIGURE=mingw32-configure It is also possible to do cross compiled builds via the Debian containers make ci-build@debian-9-cross-s390x In all cases the GIT source tree is cloned locally into a 'ci-tree/src' sub-directory which is then exposed to the container at '/src'. It is setup to use a separate build directory so the build takes place in a subdir '/src/build'. A source tree build can be requested instead by passing an empty string CI_VPATH= arg to make. The make rules are kept in a standalone file that is included into the main Makefile.am, so that it is possible to run them without having to invoke autotools first. It is neccessary to disable the gnulib submodule commit check because this fails due to the way we have manually cloned submodule repos as primary git repos with their own .git directory, instead of letting git treat them as submodules in the top level .git directory. make[1]: Entering directory '/src/build' fatal: Not a valid object name origin fatal: run_command returned non-zero status for .gnulib . maint.mk: found non-public submodule commit make: *** [/src/maint.mk:1448: public-submodule-commit] Error 1 Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@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: