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.
We need these so that we can remove the devices via the monitor.
* src/domain_conf.h: add nic_name and hostnet_name to virDomainNetDef
* src/domain_conf.c: free nic_name and hostnet_name
* src/qemu_conf.c: add qemuAssignNetNames(), use it if qemu has
support for the param and pass the names on the command line
* tests/qemuxml2argv*: add a test for this
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>
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