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Most of these functions will soon contain only some setup for
detaching the device, not the detach code proper (since that code is
identical for these devices). Their device specific functions are all
being renamed to qemuDomainDetachPrep*(), where * is the
name of that device's data member in the virDomainDeviceDef
object.
Since there will be other code in qemuDomainDetachDeviceLive() after
the calls to qemuDomainDetachPrep*() that could still fail, we no
longer directly set "ret" with the return code from
qemuDomainDetachPrep*() functions, but simply return -1 on
failure, and wait until the end of qemuDomainDetachDeviceLive() to set
ret = 0.
Along with the rename, qemuDomainDetachPrep*() functions are also
given similar arglists, including an arg called "match" that points to
the proto-object of the device we want to delete, and another arg
"detach" that is used to return a pointer to the actual object that
will be (for now *has been*) detached. To make sure these new args
aren't confused with existing local pointers that sometimes had the
same name (detach), the local pointer to the device is now named after
the device type ("controller", "disk", etc). These point to the same
place as (*detach)->data.blah, it's just easier on the eyes to have,
e.g., "disk->dst" rather than "(*detach)->data.disk-dst".
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org>
ACKed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
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:
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:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: