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Change the build process & driver initialization so that the VirtualBox driver is built into libvirtd, instead of libvirt.so This change avoids the VirtualBox GPLv2-only license causing compatibility problems with libvirt.so which is under the GPLv2-or-later license. NB this change prevents use of the VirtualBox driver on the Windows platform, until such time as libvirtd can be made to work there. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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<body>
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<h1>VirtualBox hypervisor driver</h1>
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<p>
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The libvirt VirtualBox driver can manage any VirtualBox version
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from version 2.2 onwards.
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</p>
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<h2><a name="project">Project Links</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>
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The <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/">VirtualBox</a>
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hypervisor
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Connections to VirtualBox driver</h2>
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<p>
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The libvirt VirtualBox driver provides per-user drivers (the "session" instance).
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The uri of the driver protocol is "vbox". Some example connection URIs for the driver are:
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</p>
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<pre>
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vbox:///session (local access to per-user instance)
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vbox+unix:///session (local access to per-user instance)
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vbox+tcp://user@example.com/session (remote access, SASl/Kerberos)
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vbox+ssh://user@example.com/session (remote access, SSH tunnelled)
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</pre>
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<p>
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<strong>NOTE: as of libvirt 1.0.6, the VirtualBox driver will always
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run inside the libvirtd daemon, instead of being built-in to the
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libvirt.so library directly. This change was required due to the
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fact that VirtualBox code is LGPLv2-only licensed, which is not
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compatible with the libvirt.so license of LGPLv2-or-later. The
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daemon will be auto-started when the first connection to VirtualBox
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is requested. This change also means that it will not be possible
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to use VirtualBox URIs on the Windows platform, until additional
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work is completed to get the libvirtd daemon working there.</strong>
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</p>
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<h2><a name="xmlconfig">Example domain XML config</a></h2>
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<pre>
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<domain type='vbox'>
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<name>vbox</name>
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<uuid>4dab22b31d52d8f32516782e98ab3fa0</uuid>
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<os>
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<type>hvm</type>
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<boot dev='cdrom'/>
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<boot dev='hd'/>
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<boot dev='fd'/>
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<boot dev='network'/>
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</os>
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<memory>654321</memory>
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<vcpu>1</vcpu>
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<features>
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<pae/>
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<acpi/>
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<apic/>
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</features>
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<devices>
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<disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
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<source file='/home/user/Downloads/slax-6.0.9.iso'/>
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<target dev='hdc'/>
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<readonly/>
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</disk>
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<disk type='file' device='disk'>
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<source file='/home/user/tmp/vbox.vdi'/>
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<target dev='hdd'/>
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</disk>
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<disk type='file' device='floppy'>
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<source file='/home/user/tmp/WIN98C.IMG'/>
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<target dev='fda'/>
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</disk>
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<filesystem type='mount'>
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<source dir='/home/user/stuff'/>
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<target dir='my-shared-folder'/>
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</filesystem>
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<!--BRIDGE-->
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<interface type='bridge'>
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<source bridge='eth0'/>
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<mac address='00:16:3e:5d:c7:9e'/>
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<model type='am79c973'/>
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</interface>
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<!--NAT-->
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<interface type='user'>
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<mac address='56:16:3e:5d:c7:9e'/>
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<model type='82540eM'/>
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</interface>
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<sound model='sb16'/>
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<parallel type='dev'>
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<source path='/dev/pts/1'/>
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<target port='0'/>
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</parallel>
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<parallel type='dev'>
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<source path='/dev/pts/2'/>
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<target port='1'/>
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</parallel>
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<serial type="dev">
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<source path="/dev/ttyS0"/>
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<target port="0"/>
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</serial>
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<serial type="pipe">
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<source path="/tmp/serial.txt"/>
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<target port="1"/>
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</serial>
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<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb'>
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<source>
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<vendor id='0x1234'/>
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<product id='0xbeef'/>
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</source>
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</hostdev>
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<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb'>
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<source>
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<vendor id='0x4321'/>
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<product id='0xfeeb'/>
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</source>
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</hostdev>
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</devices>
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</domain>
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</pre>
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</body>
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</html>
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