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Now that all the qemuDomainDetachPrep*() functions look nearly identical at the end, we can put one copy of that identical code in qemuDomainDetachDeviceLive() at the point after the individual prep functions have been called, and remove the duplicated code from all the prep functions. The code to locate the target "detach" device based on the "match" device remains, as do all device-type-specific validations. Unfortunately there are a few things going on at once in this patch, which makes it a bit more difficult to follow than the others; it was just impossible to do the changes in stages and still have a buildable/testable tree at each step. The other changes of note: * The individual prep functions no longer need their driver or async args, so those are removed, as are the local "ret" variables, since in all cases the functions just directly return -1 or 0. * Some of the prep functions were checking for a valid alias and/or for attempts to detach a multifunction PCI device, but not all. In fact, both checks are valid (or at least harmless) for *all* device types, so they are removed from the prep functions, and done a single time in the common function. (any attempts to *create* an alias when there isn't one has been removed, since that is doomed to failure anyway; the only way the device wouldn't have an alias is if 1) the domain was created by calling virsh qemu-attach to attach an existing qemu process to libvirt, and 2) the qemu command that started said process used "old style" arguments for creating devices that didn't have any device ids. Even if we constructed a device id for one of these devices, qemu wouldn't recognize it in the device_del command anyway, so we may as well fail earlier with "device missing alias" rather than failing later with "couldn't delete device net0".) * Only one type of device has shutdown code that must not be called until after *all* validation of the device is done (including checking for multifunction PCI and valid alias, which is done in the toplevel common code). For this reason, the Net function has been split in two, with the 2nd half (qemuDomainDetachShutdownNet()) called from the common function, right before sending the delete command to qemu. Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org> ACKed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@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: