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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Daniel P. Berrange aa9aa6a975 Allow shrinking of file based volumes
While the main storage driver code allows the flag
VIR_STORAGE_VOL_RESIZE_SHRINK to be set, none of the backend
drivers are supporting it. At the very least this can work
for plain file based volumes since we just ftruncate() them
to the new size. It does not work with qcow2 volumes, but we
can arguably delegate to qemu-img for error reporting for that
instead of second guessing this for ourselves:

$ virsh vol-resize --shrink /home/berrange/VirtualMachines/demo.qcow2 2G
error: Failed to change size of volume 'demo.qcow2' to 2G

error: internal error: Child process (/usr/bin/qemu-img resize /home/berrange/VirtualMachines/demo.qcow2 2147483648) unexpected exit status 1: qemu-img: qcow2 doesn't support shrinking images yet
qemu-img: This image does not support resize

See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1021802
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daemon Fix shadowed variable warning 2015-01-27 13:43:23 +01:00
docs docs, schema, conf: Add support for setting scheduler parameters of guest threads 2015-02-11 17:30:06 +01:00
examples Grant access to helpers 2015-01-23 11:12:44 +01:00
gnulib maint: fix date in local gnulib patch 2015-01-05 16:44:10 +00:00
include storage: add a flag to clone files on btrfs 2015-01-27 13:41:14 +01:00
m4 Conditionalize use of -Wno-suggest-attribute=format pragma 2015-01-16 17:12:27 +00:00
po Release of libvirt-1.2.12 2015-01-27 16:01:12 +08:00
src Allow shrinking of file based volumes 2015-02-12 11:11:52 +00:00
tests docs, schema, conf: Add support for setting scheduler parameters of guest threads 2015-02-11 17:30:06 +01:00
tools virsh: fix IP address in domdisplay for listen type='network' 2015-02-11 10:52:22 -05:00
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autobuild.sh Disable libvirtd by default when building on Win32 2014-04-29 11:30:32 +01:00
autogen.sh maint: improve usage of autogen's --no-git 2015-02-06 11:35:29 -07:00
bootstrap maint: update to latest gnulib 2015-01-05 16:05:12 +00:00
bootstrap.conf Revert "bootstrap.conf: add check for flex" 2015-01-12 10:14:30 -07:00
cfg.mk Make tests independant of system page size 2015-02-02 20:27:43 +00:00
ChangeLog-old Fix typos in src/* 2014-04-21 16:49:08 -06:00
config-post.h build: fix build of virt-login-shell on systems with older gnutls 2013-10-22 09:41:50 -06:00
configure.ac util: Add virProcessSetScheduler() function for scheduler settings 2015-02-11 17:30:06 +01:00
COPYING maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
COPYING.LESSER maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
HACKING docs: Fix missing curly braces 2014-12-10 11:21:31 +01:00
libvirt-lxc.pc.in Add pkg-config files for libvirt-qemu & libvirt-lxc 2014-06-23 16:17:27 +01:00
libvirt-qemu.pc.in Add pkg-config files for libvirt-qemu & libvirt-lxc 2014-06-23 16:17:27 +01:00
libvirt.pc.in Add pkg-config files for libvirt-qemu & libvirt-lxc 2014-06-23 16:17:27 +01:00
libvirt.spec.in libvirt.spec: remove vbox storage and network .so files 2015-01-28 19:05:25 +01:00
Makefile.am examples: Introduce domtop 2014-07-18 16:39:54 +02:00
Makefile.nonreentrant maint: use LGPL correctly 2013-05-20 14:03:48 -06:00
mingw-libvirt.spec.in Move virConnect related APIs out of libvirt.h.in 2014-10-24 17:23:51 +01:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
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TODO Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00

         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>