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The commandhelper binary is a helper for commandtest that
validates what file handles were inherited. For this to
work reliably we must not have any libraries that leak
file descriptors into commandhelper. Unfortunately some
versions of gnutls will intentionally open file handles
at library load time via a constructor function.
We previously hacked around this in
commit 4cbc15d037e1cd8abf5c4aa6acc30d83ae13e34d
Author: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Date: Fri May 2 09:55:52 2014 +0200
tests: don't fail with newer gnutls
gnutls-3.3.0 and newer leaves 2 FDs open in order to be backwards
compatible when it comes to chrooted binaries [1]. Linking
commandhelper with gnutls then leaves these two FDs open and
commandtest fails thanks to that. This patch does not link
commandhelper with libvirt.la, but rather only the utilities making
the test pass.
Based on suggestion from Daniel [2].
[1] http://lists.gnutls.org/pipermail/gnutls-help/2014-April/003429.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-April/msg01119.html
That fix relied on fact that while libvirt.so linked with
gnutls, libvirt_util.la did not link to it. With the
introduction of the util/vircrypto.c file that assumption
is no longer valid. We must not link to libvirt_util.la
at all - only gnulib and libc can (hopefully) be relied
on not to open random file descriptors in constructors.
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <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.
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License
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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
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