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None of the existing drivers actually use the 0-valued 'nostate' snapshot state; rather, it was a fluke of implementation. In fact, some drivers, like qemu, actively reject 'nostate' as invalid during a snapshot redefine. Normally, a driver computes the state post-parse from the current domain, and thus virDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc() will never expose the state. However, since the testsuite lacks any associated domain to copy state from, and lacks post-parse processing that normal drivers have, the testsuite output had several spots with the state, coupled with a regex filter to ignore the oddity. It is better to follow the lead of other XML defaults, by not outputting anything during format if post-parse defaults have not been applied, and rejecting the default value during parsing. The testsuite needs a bit of an update, by adding another flag for when to simulate a post-parse action of setting a snapshot state, but none of the drivers are impacted other than rejecting XML that was previously already suspicious in nature. Similarly, don't expose creation time 0 (for now, only possible if a user redefined a snapshot to claim creation at the Epoch, but also happens once setting the creation time is deferred to a post-parse handler). This is also a step towards cleaning up snapshot_conf.c to separate its existing post-parse work (namely, setting the creationTime and default snapshot name) from the pure parsing work, so that we can get rid of the testsuite hack of regex filtering of the XML and instead have more accurate testing of our parser/formatter code. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@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: