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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Jiri Denemark e26cc8f82f qemu: Filter CPU features when using host CPU
When reconnecting to a domain started with a host-model CPU which was
started by old libvirt that did not replace host-model with the real CPU
definition, libvirt replaces the host-model CPU with the CPU from
capabilities (because this is what the old libvirt did when it started
the domain). Without this patch libvirt could use features unknown to
QEMU in the CPU definition which replaced the original host-model CPU.
Such domain would keep running just fine, but any attempt to migrate it
will fail and once the domain is saved or snapshotted, restoring it
would fail too.

In other words whenever we want to use the CPU definition from host
capabilities as a guest CPU definition, we have to filter the unknown
features.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1495171

Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
2017-10-17 15:08:05 +02:00
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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 2.1 (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:

Further details on contacting the project are available on the website:

https://libvirt.org/contact.html