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This patch fixes the regression with using named pipes for qemu serial devices noted in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740478 The problem was that, while new code in libvirt looks for a single bidirectional fifo of the name given in the config, then relabels that and continues without looking for / relabelling the two unidirectional fifos named ${name}.in and ${name}.out, qemu looks in the opposite order. So if the user had naively created all three fifos, libvirt would relabel the bidirectional fifo to allow qemu access, but qemu would attempt to use the two unidirectional fifos and fail (because it didn't have proper permissions/rights). This patch changes the order that libvirt looks for the fifos to match what qemu does - first it looks for the dual fifos, then it looks for the single bidirectional fifo. If it finds the dual unidirectional fifos first, it labels/chowns them and ignores any possible bidirectional fifo. (Note commit d37c6a3a (which first appeared in libvirt-0.9.2) added the code that checked for a bidirectional fifo. Prior to that commit, bidirectional fifos for serial devices didn't work because libvirt always required the ${name}.(in|out) fifos to exist, and qemu would always prefer those.
libvirt library code README
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The directory provides the bulk of the libvirt codebase. Everything
except for the libvirtd daemon and client tools. The build uses a
large number of libtool convenience libraries - one for each child
directory, and then links them together for the final libvirt.so,
although some bits get linked directly to libvirtd daemon instead.
The files directly in this directory are supporting the public API
entry points & data structures.
There are two core shared modules to be aware of:
* util/ - a collection of shared APIs that can be used by any
code. This directory is always in the include path
for all things built
* conf/ - APIs for parsing / manipulating all the official XML
files used by the public API. This directory is only
in the include path for driver implementation modules
* vmx/ - VMware VMX config handling (used by esx/ and vmware/)
Then there are the hypervisor implementations:
* esx/ - VMware ESX and GSX support using vSphere API over SOAP
* hyperv/ - Microsoft Hyper-V support using WinRM
* lxc/ - Linux Native Containers
* openvz/ - OpenVZ containers using cli tools
* phyp/ - IBM Power Hypervisor using CLI tools over SSH
* qemu/ - QEMU / KVM using qemu CLI/monitor
* remote/ - Generic libvirt native RPC client
* test/ - A "mock" driver for testing
* uml/ - User Mode Linux
* vbox/ - Virtual Box using native API
* vmware/ - VMware Workstation and Player using the vmrun tool
* xen/ - Xen using hypercalls, XenD SEXPR & XenStore
* xenapi/ - Xen using libxenserver
Finally some secondary drivers that are shared for several HVs.
Currently these are used by LXC, OpenVZ, QEMU, UML and Xen drivers.
The ESX, Hyper-V, Power Hypervisor, Remote, Test & VirtualBox drivers all
implement the secondary drivers directly
* cpu/ - CPU feature management
* interface/ - Host network interface management
* network/ - Virtual NAT networking
* nwfilter/ - Network traffic filtering rules
* node_device/ - Host device enumeration
* secret/ - Secret management
* security/ - Mandatory access control drivers
* storage/ - Storage management drivers
Since both the hypervisor and secondary drivers can be built as
dlopen()able modules, it is *FORBIDDEN* to have build dependencies
between these directories. Drivers are only allowed to depend on
the public API, and the internal APIs in the util/ and conf/
directories