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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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Add 'nocow' to storage volume xml so that user can have an option to set NOCOW flag to the newly created volume. It's useful on btrfs file system to enhance performance. Btrfs has low performance when hosting VM images, even more when the guest in those VM are also using btrfs as file system. One way to mitigate this bad performance is to turn off COW attributes on VM files. Generally, there are two ways to turn off COW on btrfs: a) by mounting fs with nodatacow, then all newly created files will be NOCOW. b) per file. Add the NOCOW file attribute. It could only be done to empty or new files. This patch tries the second way, according to 'nocow' option, it could set NOCOW flag per file: for raw file images, handle 'nocow' in libvirt code; for non-raw file images, pass 'nocow=on' option to qemu-img, and let qemu-img to handle that (requires qemu-img version >= 2.1). Signed-off-by: Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com> |
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LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>