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The NVLink2 support in QEMU implements the detection of NVLink2 capable devices by verifying the attributes of the VFIO mem region QEMU allocates for the NVIDIA GPUs. To properly allocate an adequate amount of memLock, Libvirt needs this information before a QEMU instance is even created, thus querying QEMU is not possible and opening a VFIO window is too much. An alternative is presented in this patch. Making the following assumptions: - if we want GPU RAM to be available in the guest, an NVLink2 bridge must be passed through; - an unknown PCI device can be classified as a NVLink2 bridge if its device tree node has 'ibm,gpu', 'ibm,nvlink', 'ibm,nvlink-speed' and 'memory-region'. This patch introduces a helper called @ppc64VFIODeviceIsNV2Bridge that checks the device tree node of a given PCI device and check if it meets the criteria to be a NVLink2 bridge. This new function will be used in a follow-up patch that, using the first assumption, will set up the rlimits of the guest accordingly. Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.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: