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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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When we added the default USB controller into domain XML, we efficiently
broke migration to older versions of libvirt that didn't support USB
controllers at all (0.9.4 and earlier) even for domains that don't use
anything that the older libvirt can't provide. We still want to present
the default USB controller in any XML seen by a user/app but we can
safely remove it from the domain XML used during migration. If we are
migrating to a new enough libvirt, it will add the controller XML back,
while older libvirt won't be confused with it although it will still
tell qemu to create the controller.
Similar approach can be used in the future whenever we find out we
always enabled some kind of device without properly advertising it in
domain XML.
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LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>