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 9544b67c6b virnetdevopenvswitch: Create OVS ports as transient
Since OVS keeps desired state in a DB, upon sudden crash of the
host we may leave a port behind. There's no problem on VM
shutdown or NIC hotunplug as we call corresponding del-port
function (virNetDevOpenvswitchRemovePort()). But if the host
suddenly crashes we won't ever do that. What happens next, is
when OVS starts it finds desired state in its DB and creates a
stale port.

OVS added support for transient ports in v2.5.0 (Feb 2016) and
since its v2.9.0 it even installs a systemd service
(ovs-delete-transient-ports) that automatically deletes transient
ports on system startup. If we mark a port as transient then OVS
won't restore its state on restart after crash.

This change may render "--may-exist" argument redundant, but I'm
not sure about all the implications if it was removed. Let's keep
it for now.

Resolves: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/615
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
2024-04-24 13:13:07 +02:00
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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

Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:

https://libvirt.org/compiling.html

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

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

https://libvirt.org/contact.html