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Currently when we build with nbdkit support, libvirt will always try to use nbdkit to access remote disk sources when it is available. But without an up-to-date selinux policy allowing this, it will fail. because the required selinux policies are not yet widely available, we have disabled nbdkit support on rpm builds for all distributions before Fedora 40. Unfortunately, this makes it more difficult to test nbdkit support. After someone updates to the necessary selinux policies, they would also need to rebuild libvirt to enable nbdkit support. By introducing a configure option (nbdkit_config_default), we can build packages with nbdkit support but have it disabled by default. Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@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 2.0 (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
Contact
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
- users@lists.libvirt.org (for user discussions)
- devel@lists.libvirt.org (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: