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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Andrea Bolognani aa5895cbc7 rpm: Recommend libvirt-daemon for with_modular_daemons distros
A default deployment on modern distros uses modular daemons but
switching back to the monolithic daemon, while not recommended,
is still considered a perfectly valid option.

For a monolithic daemon deployment, the upgrade to libvirt 9.2.0
or newer works as expected; a subsequent call to dnf autoremove,
however, results in the libvirt-daemon package being removed and
the deployment no longer working.

In order to avoid that situation, mark the libvirt-daemon as
recommended.

This will unfortunately result in it being included in most
installations despite not being necessary, but considering that
the alternative is breaking existing setups on upgrade it feels
like a reasonable tradeoff.

Moreover, since the dependency on libvirt-daemon is just a weak
one, it's still possible for people looking to minimize the
footprint of their installation to manually remove the package
after installation, mitigating the drawbacks of this approach.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2232805

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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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 2.0 (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:

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

https://libvirt.org/contact.html