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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Recent rework of virshtest uncovered a subtle bug that was
dormant in now vsh but before that even in monolithic virsh.

In vsh.c there's this vshReadlineInit() function that's supposed
to initialize readline library, i.e. set those global rl_*
pointers.  But it also initializes history library. Then, when
virsh/virt-admin quits, vshReadlineDeinit() is called which
writes history into a file (ensuring the parent directory
exists). So far no problem.

Problem arises when cmdComplete() is called (from a bash
completer, for instance). It does not guard call to
vshReadlineInit() with check for interactive shell (and it should
not), but it sets ctl->historyfile which signals to
vshReadlineDeinit() the history should be written.

Now, no real history is written, because nothing was entered on
the stdin, but the parent directory is created nevertheless. With
recent movement in virshtest.c this means some test cases might
create virsh history file which breaks our promise of not
touching user's data in test suite.

Resolves: https://bugs.gentoo.org/931109
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
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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