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The virtualization driver has two connections to the virtlogd daemon, one pipe fd for writing to the log file, and one socket fd for making RPC calls. The typical sequence is to write some data to the pipe fd and then make an RPC call to determine the current log file offset. Unfortunately these two operations are not guaranteed to be handling in order by virtlogd. The event loop for virtlogd may identify an incoming event on both the pipe fd and socket fd in the same iteration of the event loop. It is then entirely possible that it will process the socket fd RPC call before reading the pending log data from the pipe fd. As a result the virtualization driver will get an outdated log file offset reported back. This can be seen with the QEMU driver where, when a guest fails to start, it will randomly include too much data in the error message it has fetched from the log file. The solution is to ensure we have drained all pending data from the pipe fd before reporting the log file offset. The pipe fd is always in blocking mode, so cares needs to be taken to avoid blocking. When draining this is taken care of by using poll(). The extra complication is that they might already be an event loop dispatch pending on the pipe fd. If we have just drained the pipe this pending event will be invalid so must be discarded. See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1356108 Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@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 2.1 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER
and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Libvirt uses the GNU Autotools build system, so in general can be built and installed with the usual commands. For example, to build in a manner that is suitable for installing as root, use:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install
While to build & install as an unprivileged user
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ make
$ make install
The libvirt code relies on a large number of 3rd party libraries. These will
be detected during execution of the configure script and a summary printed
which lists any missing (optional) dependencies.
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: