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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Laine Stump acd8333f76 qemu: add reconnect=5 to passt qemu commandline options when available
QEMU's "reconnect" option of "-netdev stream" tells QEMU to
periodically (period is given in seconds as an argument to the option)
attempt to reconnect to the same passt socket to which it had
originally connected to. This is useful in cases where the passt
process terminates, and libvirtd starts a new passt process in its
place (which doesn't happen yet, but will happen automatically after
an upcoming patch in this series).

Since there is no real hueristic for determining the "best" value of
the reconnect interval, rather than clutter up config with a knob that
nobody knows how to properly twiddle, we just set the reconnect timer
to 5 seconds.

"-netdev stream" first appeared in QEMU 7.2.0, but the reconnect
option won't be available until QEMU 8.0.0, so we need to check QEMU
capabilities just in case someone is using QEMU 7.2.0 (and thus can
support passt backend, but not reconnect)

Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2023-02-22 08:26:01 -05:00
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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 2.0 (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