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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John Ferlan b04629b629 conf: Clean up object referencing for Add and Remove
When adding a new object to the domain object list, there should
have been 2 virObjectRef calls made one for each list into which
the object was placed to match the 2 virObjectUnref calls that
would occur during Remove as part of virHashRemoveEntry when
virObjectFreeHashData is called when the element is removed from
the hash table as set up in virDomainObjListNew.

Some drivers (libxl, lxc, qemu, and vz) handled this inconsistency
by calling virObjectRef upon successful return from virDomainObjListAdd
in order to use virDomainObjEndAPI when done with the returned @vm.
While others (bhyve, openvz, test, and vmware) handled this via only
calling virObjectUnlock upon successful return from virDomainObjListAdd.

This patch will "unify" the approach to use virDomainObjEndAPI
for any @vm successfully returned from virDomainObjListAdd.

Because list removal is so tightly coupled with list addition,
this patch fixes the list removal algorithm to return the object
as entered - "locked and reffed".  This way, the callers can then
decide how to uniformly handle add/remove success and failure.
This removes the onus on the caller to "specially handle" the
@vm during removal processing.

The Add/Remove logic allows for some logic simplification such
as in libxl where we can Remove the @vm directly rather than
needing to set a @remove_dom boolean and removing after the
libxlDomainObjEndJob completes as the @vm is locked/reffed.

Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
2018-05-03 19:09:03 -04:00
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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