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The aim of pstore device is to provide a bit of NVRAM storage for guest kernel to record oops/panic logs just before the it crashes. Typical usage includes usage in combination with a watchdog so that the logs can be inspected after the watchdog rebooted the machine. While Linux kernel (and possibly Windows too) support many backends, in QEMU there's just 'acpi-erst' device so stick with that for now. The device must be attached to a PCI bus and needs two additional values (well, corresponding memory-backend-file needs them): size and path. Despite using memory-backend-file this does NOT add any additional RAM to the guest and thus I've decided to expose it as another device type instead of memory model. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kristina Hanicova <khanicov@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.
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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
Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/compiling.html
Contributing
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https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
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