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 a7b4eb7d26 virfiletst: Test virFileIsSharedFS
Introduce some basic test cases for virFileIsSharedFS(). More
will be added later. In order to achieve desired result, mocks
for setmntent() and statfs() need to be invented because the
first thing that virFileIsSharedFS() does is calling the latter.
If it finds a FUSE mount it'll call the former.

The mock might look a bit complicated, but in fact it's quite
simple. The test sets LIBVIRT_MTAB env variable to hold the
absolute path to a file containing mount table. Then, statfs()
returns matching FS it finds, and setmntent() is there just to
replace /proc/mounts with the file the test wants to load.

Adding this test also exposed a bug we have - because we assume
the given path points to a file we cut off what we assume is a
file name to obtain directory path and only then we call
statfs(). This is buggy because the passed path could be already
a mount point.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
2018-10-10 17:14:05 +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 2.1 (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:

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

https://libvirt.org/contact.html