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Local socket connections were outright disabled because there was no "server" part in the URI. However, given how requirements and usage scenarios are evolving, some management apps might need the source libvirt daemon to connect to the destination daemon over a UNIX socket for peer2peer migration. Since we cannot know where the socket leads (whether the same daemon or not) let's decide that based on whether the socket path is non-standard, or rather explicitly specified in the URI. Checking non-standard path would require to ask the daemon for configuration and the only misuse that it would prevent would be a pretty weird one. And that's not worth it. The assumption is that whenever someone uses explicit UNIX socket paths in the URI for migration they better know what they are doing. Partially resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1638889 Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@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 2.0 (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:
- 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: