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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Michal Privoznik bee5301afa qemu_process: Skip over non-virtio non-TAP NIC models when refreshing rx-filter
After guest is started, or we are reconnecting to already running
one (after daemon restart), qemuProcessRefreshRxFilters() is
called to refresh rx-filters (basically MAC addresses of guest
NICs) as they might have changed while we were not running (for
the case when reconnecting to an already running guest), or we
need to enable them by running a command (for freshly started
guest - see processNicRxFilterChangedEvent()).

Now, our XML parser allowed trustGuestRxFilters attribute for all
types and models of <interface/> while in reality, only virtio
model AND TUN/TAP based types can see MAC address changes. For
other combinations, QEMU reports an error.

This all means that when the daemon is restarted and it
reconnects to a guest with, well invalid configuration, or when
such guest is restored from a saved image, or migrated then we
issue the monitor command, to which QEMU replies with an error
which is then propagated to users:

  error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'query-rx-filter': invalid net client name: hostdev0

While on one hand users should fix their configuration (and after
v10.0.0-rc1~123 they can do that even on live domains), libvirt
can also has some logic built in that prevent issuing the command
in the first place (for obviously wrong cases).

Fixes: 060d4c83ef
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
2024-01-25 15:55:33 +01:00
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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