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Our ChangeLog is generated by basically redirecting the output of 'git log' into it so, as can be expected, it has only gotten bigger as development has progressed. As of today, its size has reached pretty much comical levels: $ du -sk ChangeLog 11328 ChangeLog All of that for information *literally nobody* cares about: end users and distro maintainers have proper release notes lovingly compiled for them, while developers peruse the history either by calling 'git log' directly or through their favorite $EDITOR's git integration. Replacing the generated ChangeLog with a short message pointing interested parties to the git repository does not only reduce the size of the unpacked sources from 259904 KiB to 248576 KiB (~4% saving): from a quick test on my laptop, doing so reduces the size of the *compressed* release archive from 15140 KiB to 12364 KiB (~18% saving) and also takes the time needed to run 'make distcheck' down from 4:44 to 4:21 (~8% saving). Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@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:
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: