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The remember owner feature uses XATTRs to store original seclabels. But that means we don't want a regular user to be able to change what we stored and thus trick us into setting different seclabel. Therefore, we use namespaces that are reserved to CAP_SYS_ADMIN only. Such namespaces exist on Linux and FreeBSD. That also means, that the whole feature is enabled only for qemu:///system. Now, while the secdriver code is capable of dealing with XATTRs being unsupported (it has to, not all filesystems support them) if the feature is enabled users will get an harmless error message in the logs and the feature disables itself. Since we have virSecurityXATTRNamespaceDefined() we can use it to make a wiser decision on the default state of the feature. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov@yadro.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@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 2.0 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/compiling.html
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: