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This event is emitted on the monitor when a GID table in pvrdma device is modified and the change needs to be propagate to the backend RDMA device's GID table. The control over the RDMA device's GID table is done by updating the device's Ethernet function addresses. Usually the first GID entry is determine by the MAC address, the second by the first IPv6 address and the third by the IPv4 address. Other entries can be added by adding more IP addresses. The opposite is the same, i.e. whenever an address is removed, the corresponding GID entry is removed. The process is done by the network and RDMA stacks. Whenever an address is added the ib_core driver is notified and calls the device driver's add_gid function which in turn update the device. To support this in pvrdma device we need to hook into the create_bind and destroy_bind HW commands triggered by pvrdma driver in guest. Whenever a changed is made to the pvrdma device's GID table a special QMP messages is sent to be processed by libvirt to update the address of the backend Ethernet device. Signed-off-by: Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@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: