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Daniel P. Berrange
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Move VirtualBox driver into libvirtd
Change the build process & driver initialization so that the VirtualBox driver is built into libvirtd, instead of libvirt.so This change avoids the VirtualBox GPLv2-only license causing compatibility problems with libvirt.so which is under the GPLv2-or-later license. NB this change prevents use of the VirtualBox driver on the Windows platform, until such time as libvirtd can be made to work there. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
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>
Description
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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